Clashes have flared again in Syria’s southern Suweida province, marking the most serious escalation in months between government forces and Druze fighters who control most of the region. The ...

In June 2024, just months before his death, Hassan Nasrallah, the former Secretary-General of Hezbollah, directly threatened the island of Cyprus, saying the group would target it if Israel used its ...

President Donald Trump said the latest round of U.S. strikes on Iran would not last long, even as Washington prepares to keep some of its forces deployed across the Middle East into 2027 — a sign ...

Iraqi officials often insist that the Popular Mobilization Forces are an integral part of the country’s national security apparatus. They point to a 2016 law passed by Iraq’s Parliament that ...

The Mecca Defense Alliance took a significant step toward becoming a formal regional security bloc this week, as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to establish a permanent secretariat in ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. You can read it in Arabic here, and check out MBN’s flagship Arabic-language Alhurra news platform (also in English). The war widened again this week. Riyadh ...

Iran continues to export oil despite U.S. sanctions and a naval blockade, relying on a network of vessels and intermediaries as well as tactics designed to conceal identities and manipulate ...

The Trump administration is casting its new Venezuela oil agreement as a long-term effort to secure U.S. energy supplies against disruptions from the Iran war in the Strait of Hormuz, though ...

Anand Gopal is cautiously optimistic. Much has happened in Syria since he completed the research for Days of Love and Rage, a sprawling non-fiction narrative about a city’s remarkable efforts to ...

Egyptian and Chinese flags have proliferated along roads in Cairo and Giza, around Cairo International Airport and near the Grand Egyptian Museum in anticipation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ...

On Aug. 28, Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s published a message to the Iranian people. The most striking thing about the text was not his calls for investment, domestic production or ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. You can read it in Arabic here, and check out MBN’s flagship Arabic-language Alhurra news platform (also in English). If you were forwarded the MBN Iran ...