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Iranians chant slogans and wave national flags as they celebrate a ceasefire between Iran and Israel at Enghlab Square in the capital Tehran on June 24, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Now that the guns have fallen silent, what next for Iran?

Wahid Abdel Maguid 27, Jun 2025
A worker inspects pipes at the Amal oil field in eastern Libya, October 7, 2011. Reuters
Business & Economy

The Israel-Iran war dealt another economic blow to North Africa

Kawthar Zantour 27, Jun 2025
75 years after the first Nakba, Israel is forcibly displacing Palestinians from their land, just as what happened to their forefathers. Michelle Thompson

Palestinians in Gaza in the midst of a modern-day Nakba

75 years after the first Nakba, Israel is forcibly displacing Palestinians from their land, just as what happened to their forefathers.

Houssam Marouf 16, Oct 2023
The Kingdom’s domestic revolution also requires a revolution in its external relationships to reflect these changes. Nathalie Lees

The past should not hold the present hostage

The Kingdom's domestic revolution also requires a revolution in its external relationships to reflect these changes.

John Jenkins 16, Oct 2023

Post-October 7: Israel’s brutal pursuit to restore its lost deterrence

A reading on Israel's objectives in its new war on Gaza

Hesham Alghannam 15, Oct 2023
While the Middle East has a track record of leaving conflicts unresolved, could this chapter be one that could reshape history and break with past patterns of conflict resolution? Al Majalla/Agencies

Will 7 October change the course of history?

While the Middle East has a track record of leaving conflicts unresolved, could this chapter be one that could reshape history and break with past patterns of conflict resolution?

Al Majalla - London 14, Oct 2023
History has proven that cutting separate peace deals with Israel has not led to a comprehensive and lasting peace for the region. The potential of a Saudi-Israel normalisation opens a new door. Nash Weerasekera

Can peace efforts break through the barbed wire of war?

History has proven that cutting separate peace deals with Israel has not led to a comprehensive and lasting peace for the region. The potential of a Saudi-Israel normalisation opens a new door.

Brian Katulis 14, Oct 2023
Turkish President and AK Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds a sign showing the evolution of lands of Israel and Palestine on maps at his party's group meeting in the Turkish National Assembly in Ankara on October 11, 2023. AFP

Israel's Gaza offensive could derail improved ties with Turkey

Erdoğan must carefully weigh his supporters' deep emotions toward the Palestinian cause with the realpolitik benefits of improved relations with Israel.

Omer Onhon 14, Oct 2023
Fighters traveling in a military convoy accompanying the governor of Darfur state on August 30, 2023. AFP

Obstacles to forming a united front against Sudan's war

There is consensus that the regular army needs to be purged of political influence. Progress depends on reaching an agreement on what to do about the Rapid Support Forces, and justice must be served.

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb 14, Oct 2023
Israeli army tanks and vehicles deploy along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on October 13, 2023. Majalla/AFP

As Gaza braces for Israeli ground offensive, stakeholders set their red lines

Reading the diplomatic signals being sent will be key to whatever unfolds next in Gaza. Al Majalla reviews international and regional positions being taken and the limits being set.

Ibrahim Hamidi 14, Oct 2023
Russia's President Vladimir Putin giving an interview to Al Ghad television station after a plenary session of the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow on October 11, 2023. AFP

Russia performs delicate balancing act as Israel wages war on Gaza

Russia's credibility in the region was diminished by its backing of the Syrian regime, so it has limited cards to play. But Moscow stands to benefit from Western distraction in its war on Ukraine.

Anton Mardasov 13, Oct 2023
Battleships of the Great White Fleet enter San Francisco harbor on May 6, 1908, completing the first leg of their 14-month, 45,000-mile globe-circling cruise. USNI

A history of American destroyers in Arab waters

US warships have been deployed to the Middle East for nearly a century. As the USS Gerald R Ford arrives in the region, Al Majalla revisits the list of 'presidential' destroyers in Arab waters.

Sami Moubayed 13, Oct 2023
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Politics

Shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire points to unfinished business

24 June 2025

What Trump has dubbed the '12-Day War' could be just the opening salvo of a much longer conflict

Michael Horowitz
Emergency workers check the damage caused to a building from an Iranian missile strike in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 24, 2025. John Wessels / AFP
Business & Economy

Counting the cost of the Israel-Iran war

24 June 2025

The recent Israel-Iran war is not just a regional flashpoint; it is a mirror reflecting the fragility and interdependence of the modern global economy

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
Lina Jaradat
Politics

Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

20 June 2025

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

Eric Brewer
Opinion

Israeli and Iranian claims of victory ring hollow

25 June 2025

Netanyahu did not realise his goal of ending Iran's nuclear programme and regime change, and Iran stood alone in its war with Israel, as global and regional allies left it to fend for itself

Houssam Itani
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran's strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

Arash Azizi

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