Algeria

World Cup 2026: Arab teams offer a master class in grace and solidarity

From offering sweets to stadium staff, to speaking out on Palestine, squads from across the region are leaving their mark on football's biggest stage

World Cup 2026: Ranking some of the best kits from the Middle East and North Africa

How the Strait of Hormuz crisis is reshaping the old world order

Idriss Hadj Nacer

‘No reshape’: Algeria prepares for elections but few hold out hope for change

In Mali, every foreign intervention failed - and jihadists adapted

Omar Ashour

Mali’s new turmoil tests Algerian bid to reclaim mediator role in the Sahel

‘Stopping migration downstream’: Morocco launches mass deportations to block route to Europe

Saudi Arabia and its allies must curb the growing Israeli-Emirati axis

David Hearst

Turkey-Syria earthquake

Has Bashar al-Assad leveraged disaster for political gain?

Morocco: Lacoste's polo shirt separating Western Sahara causes national outrage

Said Khatibi: To avoid war, destroy the myth of purity

The story behind the Algerian foreign minister's dismissal

Tunisia: If democrats unite, they can still save the country

David Hearst

Russia-Ukraine war

Seven ways the Russia-Ukraine war shaped the Middle East and North Africa

Italy is building ties with Algeria, and could bring it closer to the West

Dario Cristiani

Club World Cup: Hosts Morocco seek to impress Fifa after heroics in Qatar

Arabic press review: Brother of ex-Algerian president told to pay back billions

'The day the desert wind cried': French nuclear tests cast long shadow in Libyan Sahara

Palestine state

Mandela’s grandson shows solidarity with Palestine and Western Sahara

Israel normalisation deals

Israel recognition opposed by vast majority in Arab world, says major poll