An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground
Deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria earlier this year were followed by the Morocco earthquake, floods in Libya, and an extreme heatwave in Europe, which will further drive costs up
Seven months after the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria — the area that suffered the most from marginalisation policies before the Syrian conflict — the heavy cost of the…
A new report highlights how the damage caused by the quake ate up a third of Syria's national 2022 GDP. Also, 6,392 people were killed and 170,000 displaced in the catastrophe.
After Syrians experienced the brutalities of war for more than a decade as the world stood by watching, earthquake survivors say they didn't expect help this time either
The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.
PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground
Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints
A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons