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Children watch the Indian Air Force (IAF) Surya Kiran aerobatics team performing during Aero India 2025, a military aviation exhibition at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru on 13 February 2025. Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP
Politics

India’s record defence budget turns heads

Shakir Husain 17 February 2026
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Army Chief and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir pose with US President Donald Trump (C) at the White House in Washington, DC on 26 September 2025. AFP
Politics

Pakistan proves its utility as a key US intermediary

Kamal Alam 15 February 2026
Julian D. Paulsen

Why Trump's bid to peel Russia from China won't work

Trump thinks that lifting sanctions and reintegrating Russia will weaken Moscow's alliance with Beijing. That is short-sighted. The world Henry Kissinger exploited in 1970 is no longer.

Shirley Ze Yu 08 April 2025
Nicola Ferrarese

How chatting with DeepSeek differs from ChatGPT

"Our mission is to provide information, not to promote any agenda," the made-in-China chatbot explains

Abdulsalam Bin Abdulali 08 April 2025
Brian Stauffer

Will Trump back down from a global trade war?

The US president still has plenty of outs from his extreme tariffs

Bob Davis 07 April 2025
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Al Majalla's Film Watch

Every month, Al Majalla offers its take on the screen's newest releases, with the occasional dip into the archives to review an older classic

Areej Jamal 05 April 2025
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, US, on April 3, 2025. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Markets greet Trump’s tariffs with a blizzard of red numbers

Stocks, the dollar, and crude oil are all down on fears of a trade war-induced slowdown

Keith Johnson 04 April 2025
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs as US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick holds a chart during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ brings even bigger tariffs than expected

Double-digit tariffs on nearly every trading partner will likely spark reprisals

Keith Johnson 03 April 2025
BlackRock: a financial giant that controls the world Diana Estefanía Rubio

BlackRock: a financial giant that controls the world

Four financial giants, BlackRock, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, and State Street, have emerged as the silent powers behind many of the world's largest companies. These firms control around $32tn in…

Al Majalla - London 01 April 2025
A man walks past a mural depicting the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano in Montevideo. Eitan ABRAMOVICH / AFP

Remembering Eduardo Galeano: the voice of the oppressed

The passion and imagination of the Uruguayan writer remain timeless, not least over Gaza. Ten years since his passing, Al Majalla revisits his works and words.

Antoine Jockey 28 March 2025
Nash Weerasekera

Why the Pentagon is turning to AI startups

Artificial intelligence is offering cutting-edge solutions that slow-moving legacy contractors can't seem to keep up with

Marco Mossad 28 March 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

US top global airpower; Russia a distant second

Military airpower has been used in warfare since the early 20th century, serving as a critical tool for armed forces. While the number of aircraft in an air force doesn't necessarily indicate how…

Al Majalla - London 25 March 2025
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Trump has few good options on Iran

16 February 2026

As the US and Iran head to talks in Geneva, competing forces are pulling Trump in opposite directions. There are only two "good" scenarios in front of him, and neither will be easy to achieve.

Michael Horowitz
AFP / Al Majalla
Politics

Back to Qandil: PKK fighters finally leaving Syria

12 February 2026

More than 40 years after PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan began building networks of trained operatives in Syria's north-east to infiltrate Türkiye, they have been sent packing

Ibrahim Hamidi
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Army Chief and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir pose with US President Donald Trump (C) at the White House in Washington, DC on 26 September 2025. AFP
Politics

Pakistan proves its utility as a key US intermediary

12 February 2026

Islamabad emerges as a key bridge in tricky conflicts from Iran to China

Kamal Alam
AFP/Reuters/Al Majalla
Politics

Bigger than Maduro: Trump’s real designs on Latin America

09 February 2026

Christophe Ventura, a French expert on Latin America, speaks to Al Majalla about Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, and China's role in a continent that the US president considers his backyard.

Elie Kossaifi
Scarlett Yang
Culture & Social Affairs

The benefits and flaws of child social media bans

10 February 2026

Whether to legislate against Under-16s accessing a big part of contemporary society is a complex question involving law, technology, privacy, rights, and the nature of a child's development

Hala Al-Naji

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