On land, British troops had seized several major cities. They had captured New York, then Philadelphia – the de facto capital of revolutionary America. Washington’s battered army retreated to ...
The crisis in the Strait has forced Iraq to reassess its participation in OPEC, the cartel-like organization of petroleum-producing countries founded to coordinate prices and supply in the market.
In a recent interview, President Donald Trump once again raised the idea of allowing Syria to intervene in Lebanon. He suggested that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa might do a better job of ...
At Tehran’s Saadabad Palace on Thursday morning, the Iraqi and Iranian national anthems were played as Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Faleh al-Zaidi inspected an honor guard alongside Iranian ...
Recent security arrests in Lebanon suggest that the Islamic State has rebuilt its presence in the country through clandestine networks and cells. The latest arrest involved a Syrian national who ...
The United States will continue its military strikes against Iran despite ongoing talks between the two countries, a White House official told MBN, underscoring the Trump administration’s ...
As Saudi Arabia has increased its reliance on the Red Sea to bypass instability in the Strait of Hormuz, a new threat is emerging in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait–Yemen’s Iran-aligned ...
Iran has instructed its Houthi allies in Yemen to prepare to disrupt oil tanker traffic through the Red Sea if the United States targets Iran’s power grid or energy infrastructure, raising ...
One of the defining sensations of my childhood was waiting. Waiting for the shooting to stop, for the electricity to come back, for the road to reopen, for the adults to decide whether it was safe ...
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).  Water and power are running out at the ...
Iranian strikes on data centers in the Gulf states have spotlighted possible vulnerabilities in the U.S. government’s effort to foster American AI investments there and draw the region away from ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi returned from Washington without the message he had hoped to deliver to Tehran. But he returned with enough encouragement to keep trying to bridge the ...