On Aug. 8, the Turkish Defense Ministry hired DC lobbying giant Ballard Partners for $2.4 million, apparently as part of its long-stalled effort to rejoin the F-35 fighter jet program. Turkey was ...

Xi backed renewed U.S.-Iran talks at the White House but made no commitment to press Tehran. Analysts say Beijing benefits as the war ties down the U.S.

Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days. A U.S. official told Alhurra the talks are "positive" but Washington is "in no rush." ...

For years, Yasser Abbas, the son of 90-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, was known primarily as a businessman rather than a politician. But earlier this year, following a series of ...

Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States and the Middle East are still living, in different ways, with the questions that moment raised. Wars have erupted, ...

Yemeni government forces said Friday that they had recaptured a strategic mountain range in the country’s southwest, as fierce fighting with Houthi forces continued over high ground ...

Trump and Xi hailed ties at a White House summit but gave few details on the Iran war, Hormuz, trade or AI. Xi backed a return to the Islamabad memorandum.

Four years after Mahsa Amini’s death led to the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, Amnesty International has published a report that examines a question largely still unanswered: Who was responsible ...

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The Houthis have shocked the world with the speed and scale of their offensive to seize control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Equally surprising, however, was the restrained American reaction: The ...

As President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping trade greetings — and pandas! — at Xi’s first visit to the White House in more than a decade, MBN takes a look behind the scenes. Trump ...