Welcome back to the MBN Friday Briefing, our weekly roundup of our best reporting on the Middle East and Washington. The next time we meet here, we could be in the midst of an armed conflict in ...

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, began in the third week of February, bringing more than two billion Muslims around the world a deeper spirituality as well as a religious responsibility: fasting ...

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Welcome back. The world’s eyes are on what will happen next between the U.S. and Iran. Things are on the edge between diplomacy and escalation. As the region watches, we will continue our look at ...

In her home in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, Maya, 38, opens a small cabinet near the front door. Inside is a neatly packed black sports bag. “It has our identification papers, some cash and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is keeping all options open with regard to Iran, while noting that his administration is working “very hard” to end the war in Ukraine, and that it has already ...

In Washington, the State of the Union is now measured not just by the weight of its promises, but by the length of its delivery – a clock that seems to stretch under unprecedented verbosity.

Any external attack on a member state is considered an attack on all, requiring collective action. This is the principle enshrined in the Joint Defense Agreement signed by the Gulf Cooperation ...

Madrid has thrown its historical and political weight into the heart of the dispute over Western Sahara, hosting meetings on Feb. 10 between representatives of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the ...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has not left a single stretch of the border with Iraq without deploying heavy units, ballistic missile launch platforms, and radar systems in preparation for war,” ...

In 2024, roughly 20 million barrels of oil per day passed through the Strait of Hormuz – about one-fifth of global consumption. Around one-fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas trade ...

From Muscat to Doha, from Tehran to Washington, and through coordination with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has been conducting intensive ...