Gulf and Iraqi officials told MBN this week that Iran has sent messages to Saudi Arabia denying responsibility for an attack earlier this month on the kingdom’s East-West oil pipeline, while ...

Over more than a decade, the Iran-backed Houthis have transformed themselves from a group reliant largely on small arms and medium weapons into a formidable military force armed with ballistic and ...

The American-Israeli war against Iran is now in its seventh month, but Western policymakers and commentators continue to overlook one of the most fundamental reasons for their own inability to ...

On the night of September 17, Damascus witnessed something it had not seen in fifteen years. Assala Nasri, the Syrian-born superstar who had lived in exile since she bravely threw her support ...

Houthi control of Yemen's Red Sea coast and the Bab al-Mandab could benefit al-Qaida affiliates AQAP and al-Shabab, experts tell MBN.

Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian offer on Saturday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, his envoys continued talks with Iranian officials in New York, with Qatar acting as ...

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Iranian and Hezbollah commanders helped plan and carry out the Houthi offensive that seized the Red Sea port of Mocha this month, a former Houthi spokesman told MBN, calling it the first battle in ...

Baghdad has secured an exemption from Washington allowing Iranian flights to and from the Shiite holy city of Najaf, following U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran’s aviation sector, an Iraqi ...

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.

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 ...

You can read it in Arabic here, and check out MBN’s flagship Arabic-language Alhurra news platform (English version here). This week’s edition of the briefing is a joint effort by our new ...