Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. This week, the war will reach its three-month mark. The U.S. and Iran may be closer to ...

Have you ever wondered who you would have been if you had been born in Helsinki?” That’s what my friend Manal, with whom I spent so many childhood summers fig picking in our native village of ...

After decades of denying Kurdish language and identity, Syria’s new leadership formally acknowledged the country’s Kurdish population earlier this year. But for many Kurds, the recognition remains ...

The latest round of U.S. sanctions on Lebanon has gone beyond targeting politicians and financial networks linked to Hezbollah, reaching instead into the heart of the country’s official security ...

For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been associated in the global imagination with oil — and with the recurring question of whether Iran could threaten energy flows through one of the world’s ...

The Trump administration has moved beyond ideological debate in its approach to the Muslim Brotherhood, placing the issue at the center of its 2026 counterterrorism and national security strategy.

The guns have largely fallen silent in Iran after the forty-day war, but the crackdown inside the country is only intensifying. Rights groups and activists say Iranian authorities have launched a ...

The fractures within Iraq’s Shiite-led Coordination Framework are beginning to spill into public view following the parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s government, in a development ...

The new Iraqi government of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi is facing an early test in relations with Gulf states after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said they had come under drone attacks ...

At home, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has cast himself as a leader determined to break with Islam. He has focused ...

Iraq’s parliament voted Thursday to approve the government of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, passing 14 ministries out of a proposed 23, with the remaining cabinet posts to be voted on at a later ...

The U.S. almost attacked Iran again on Tuesday. Details have emerged of a plan to install a virulently anti-American politician as leader of Iran when Israel and America attacked on Feb. 28. Read ...