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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jordanians are watching an “extraterritorial war” between the United States and Iran unfold on their territory, amid growing expectations that fighting will resume after the collapse ...

In late June, a rumor spread across Chinese social media. Cabo Verde, the tiny African island nation of 500,000 people that had just charmed the World Cup, had supposedly invited China to a ...

Washington is betting that Israel can begin its promised withdrawal from southern Lebanon and hand over the fight against Hezbollah to the Lebanese army, even if the U.S.-Iran peace framework ...

I arrived in Beirut around ten in the evening. Rafik Hariri International Airport, small by international standards, was packed with travelers: Lebanese returning temporarily from the diaspora, ...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun appealed for U.S. support for the Lebanese army during a White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, while also warning of the political risks ...