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Criminal gangs with links to IS are being armed by Israel as a proxy force to advance the final phase of the war in Gaza, with fears it could ignite civil war

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Formally integrating foreign fighters into Syria's new army is viewed as a pragmatic political move, but one which alarms many in Syrian society

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Directed at the Israeli public and international media, Israel coordinated a propaganda campaign aimed at undermining the Madleen’s humanitarian mission to Gaza

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Historically, Israel's qualitative military edge has constrained the development of US-Gulf strategic ties, but could that be about to change?

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Years of fighting, neglect, and corruption have crippled over 50% of Syria's energy grid. Rebuilding it will be fundamental to the country's reconstruction

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Israel's announcement of 22 new settlements is part of a decades-long policy to thwart a Palestinian state and annex the West Bank
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As the people of Gaza struggle to survive under Israel’s collective starvation policy, coeliacs are being forced to eat foods that are slowly killing them
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This week on The New Arab Voice podcast we look at US President Donald Trump's recent trip to the Gulf. During this trip he secured billions of dollars worth of deals and investments. There were the usual defence contracts, but also, advance...

The New Arab Voice is back! This week we look at the recent sectarian violence that engulfed the Syrian coast and targeted the country's Alawite community and the violence that hit in the south, which targeted the country's Druze community. We...

For the final episode of Sanaa's Odyssey, we travelled to Cairo, to meet with Sanaa in person. When we spoke, a ceasefire had been agreed between Israel and Hamas, although, there was little hope that it would hold. In her Cairo apartment, we spoke...

By April 2024, Sanaa and her family decided that it was time to get out of Gaza. They had experienced seven months of the brutal conflict, been forced from their homes, and lost countless friends and family members. At the time, the only way out of...

As the war in Gaza continues to rage, Sanaa has to continue working as a journalist. Sanaa has been working as a journalist for 19 years, and while she has witnessed many wars in Gaza, the current conflict has been the most difficult to report on...

This is episode 2 of Sanaa's Odyssey, a brand new series from The New Arab. You can subscribe to Sanaa's Odyssey on all podcast platforms. On episode two of Sanaa's Odyssey, we follow Palestinian freelance journalist Sanaa Kamal as her and her family...

The war in Gaza began on October 7th 2023. Sanaa Kamal watched it happen from her balcony as she drank her morning coffee. That day would be the start of a nightmare for her and her family. On this episode of Sanaa's Odyssey, Palestinian freelance...

Sanaa Kamal is a freelance journalist, who was born and raised in Gaza. She has lived through a series of wars in Gaza, but nothing like the war that followed the Hamas-led attacks of October 7th. In this five-part podcast from The New Arab in London...

With the return of President Donald Trump, we also saw the return of the 'maximum pressure' campaign. The maximum pressure campaign was the hallmark of Trump's Iran foreign policy during his first term, and took the form of a raft of sanctions, which...

The Assad regime has gone. After 14 years of war, and 54 years of one family's rule, Syria is now stepping into a new period of its history. Led by the transitional government of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, Syria will now have to build a new state and...
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