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Poland waits in the wings as WWIII threat lurks

Fares Garabet 14 September 2025
Nash

The contours of Trump’s vision for Ukraine are emerging

Key pillars include a land-for-peace deal and European-led security guarantees aimed at reducing American involvement. However, given Moscow and Kyiv's rigid positions, the war is likely to drag on.

Robert Ford 01 September 2025
Nash

Broker or showman? Trump’s high-stakes Ukraine play

Can the strong yet temperamental broker reconcile the opposing forces in the Russia-Ukraine War?

Aqeel Abbas 30 August 2025
Sara Padovan

Are land grabs becoming the norm in today's world?

Trump's willingness to cede Ukrainian land to Russia will have global repercussions, but the acceptance of land seizures actually goes back decades, with Israel being a serial offender

Christopher Phillips 28 August 2025
Al Majalla

Will more sanctions on Russia help end the Ukraine war?

Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Western countries imposed a vast array of sanctions aimed at crippling Russia’s economy and pressuring President Vladimir Putin…

Al Majalla - London 26 August 2025

Trump to Zelenksyy: nice suit, but still no cards

Fares Garabet 21 August 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump participate in a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 18, 2025. Mandel NGAN / AFP

Key takeaways from Trump’s meeting With Zelenskyy

Less fireworks in the White House, but no definitive outcomes just yet

Rishi Iyengar 19 August 2025
US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Putin rides high after Alaska

Seven instances that showed the Russian leader had the upper hand during his meeting with Trump

Robert Ford 18 August 2025

Putin sitting pretty after Alaska summit

Fares Garabet 17 August 2025
US President Donald Trump speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as they meet to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, US, August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Trump-Putin meeting already seen as a win for the Kremlin

Putin heads to Alaska, marking his first visit to the US in a decade and his first meeting with a US president since June 2021, when he shook hands with Biden in Geneva

Con Coughlin 14 August 2025
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Trump's Board of Peace gives hints to his vision for a new world order

24 January 2026

Critics worry the BOP is a bid to dismantle the post-1945 international order and replace it with structures under the US president's direct control, with scope stretching well beyond Gaza

Tarek Rashed
Opinion

The battle for the state is reshaping regional alliances

18 January 2026

From Yemen and Syria to Sudan and Libya, there is a concerted effort to reassert state authority and thwart moves toward the proliferation of quasi-states and fragmentation

Ibrahim Hamidi
Al Majalla
Politics

'Gaza has broken every record of modern war'

23 January 2026

Former Médecins Sans Frontières president Rony Brauman explains to Al Majalla how Israel's war on Gaza has produced unprecedented suffering and exposed the collapse of international law

Elie Kossaifi
Al Majalla
Culture & Social Affairs

Al Majalla's Film Watch: the best of Youssef Chahine

23 January 2026

On the centenary of his birth, Al Majalla highlights some of the many standout films of the legendary Egyptian director's illustrious career

Areej Jamal
A man walks past a mural depicting SDF supporters raising a flag showing the face of Abdullah Öcalan, the founding leader of the PKK, in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on December 16, 2024. Delil Souleiman/AFP
Politics

The SDF: from chosen US security partner to liability

21 January 2026

How a regional and international climate increasingly aligned with Damascus is placing pressure on the Syrian Democratic Forces to prioritise Syrian unity

Subhi Franjieh

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