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Adla Massoud

Adla Massoud

Adla Massoud is The National’s New York and United Nations correspondent, where she reports on diplomacy, politics and the Middle East’s shifting conflicts. Also a documentary filmmaker, she was recognised in 2022 by the Arab Film and Media Institute as one of six “Rising Arab Women in Filmmaking.”
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Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara attends Cop30 in Brazil on November. AFP
UN lifts sanctions on Syria’s Ahmad Al Shara as China abstains

The resolution also lifted restrictions on Interior Minister Anas Khattab

USNovember 06, 2025
A French member of the UN interim force in southern Lebanon. There are plans to send a peacekeeping force to stabilise Gaza. AFP
US resolution outlines powers of proposed Gaza international force

Transitional body with two-year mandate would oversee security and demilitarisation

USNovember 06, 2025
From left, Abigail Spanberger in Richmond, Zohran Mamdani in New York and Mikie Sherrill in East Brunswick, New Jersey, were all winners. AP
Democrats' dominance in key races a warning shot to Republicans

Although wins give boost to Democrats, the party has long road to 2026 midterm elections

USNovember 05, 2025
Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara. FII Institute
US urges UN to vote to lift sanctions against Syria's Ahmad Al Shara

Decision expected this week on President and Interior Minister's removal from black list

USNovember 04, 2025
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 04: Democratic New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani greets campaign staffers and volunteers at Someday Bar on November 04, 2025 in the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Mamdani defeated Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in the closely watched election for New York City mayor. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Democrat Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City's first Muslim mayor

Charismatic democratic socialist, who defeated a candidate backed by Trump and Musk, endured months of Islamophobic fury

USNovember 04, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, on the Brooklyn Bridge on November 3. Bloomberg
Can Mamdani become New York’s first Muslim mayor?

Voters in Big Apple head to polls as mayoral race draws intense scrutiny

USNovember 04, 2025
Syria President Ahmad Al Shara will hold talks with US President Donald Trump in Washington next week. Sana
Donald Trump to host Syria’s Ahmad Al Shara in 'historic' first-ever White House visit

Syrian leader is expected to sign an agreement to join the US-led coalition against ISIS

USNovember 02, 2025
Houthi soldiers patrol a street in Sanaa, the rebel-held capital of Yemen, during a televised speech by Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al Houthi. EPA
Dozens of UN staff to face trial in Houthi courts over Israeli attack

The employees, most of them Yemenis, are accused of spying and espionage

MENAOctober 31, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, speaks outside a Bronx Mosque on October 24. Getty Images via AFP
Islamophobia is going mainstream in US to greet New York's prospective new mayor

Some politicians and right-wing commentators seem to be showing their true colours in the mayoral campaign after the war in Gaza

USOctober 31, 2025
Displaced children and families in Tawila, in Sudan's war-torn western Darfur region, after fleeing El Fasher following the city’s fall to the Rapid Support Forces. AP
UN condemns RSF for 'ethnically motivated atrocities' in Sudan war

Aid chief Tom Fletcher warns of 'an even darker hell'

NewsOctober 30, 2025
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi at UN headquarters on October 29. AP
UN nuclear chief says inspectors working in Iran but barred from US-bombed sites

Rafael Grossi says Tehran has given 'security reasons' for restricting access to Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow

MENAOctober 29, 2025
Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on October 29. Reuters
Hamas willing to cede control of Gaza but disarmament remains an issue, Qatari PM says

Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman says he is disappointed by the latest violence in Gaza

USOctober 29, 2025
Israeli tanks gathered at an undisclosed location near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, on October 21. EPA
More than 60 countries complicit in Israel's 'genocidal machinery' in Gaza, says Albanese

Report says global military and economic ties have helped sustain Israel’s campaign

NewsOctober 28, 2025
A supporter of the leading New York City mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani. AP
New Yorkers flood polls in protest over soaring rents and living costs

Affordability the defining issue, with frontrunner Zohran Mamdani pledging cheaper food and rent

USOctober 28, 2025
Three of the first four UN leaders were from western Europe, but subsequent appointments have been from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Reuters
US calls for UN to launch wide search for leader to take it 'back to basics'

Diplomats begin informal discussions over selection of successor to Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is to step down in December 2026

USOctober 24, 2025
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