The U.S. State Department said Tuesday that the United States believes Iran-backed militias should have no role in Iraq’s political life. The statement, delivered by a State Department ...

In a cell where light barely seeps in, Mahmoud, along with “Islamist prisoners” in Building B of Roumieh Prison, made a decision the harsh consequences of which they fully understood in advance: ...

Iraq is scheduled to form a new government with the election of a new president in a parliamentary session set for Tuesday. The session is also expected to include the nomination of former Prime ...

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan has reopened debate over the future of disagreements between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and the prospects for containing or managing tensions, saying that the ...

In its 2026 report, the World Economic Forum draws a roadmap for a world entering a new phase of “compound uncertainty” — one in which crises overlap and risks feed into one another, at a historic ...

Welcome back to the MBN Agenda, our look at the events driving the news in the Middle East in the week to come. Kurdish power in Syria is collapsing. ISIS prisoners are on the move. Iraq edges ...

The “New Gaza” plan promoted by President Trump’s administration presents the enclave as a reconstruction and investment project, but it sidesteps a fundamental question: Who owns the land? In ...

The “Menteshor” health center in the heart of the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobani has been receiving fatalities and dozens of wounded as a result of shelling carried out by Syrian ...

As northern Syria entered a new phase, the transfer of thousands of Islamic State detainees to Iraqi custody was seen as more than a logistical operation. Analysts said the move reflected shifting ...

What looks like a collapse of Kurdish power in Syria is better understood as the final phase of a gradual U.S. downgrade. A Kurdish official close to the Washington Kurdish Institute told MBN’s ...

Claims that China carried out a large military airlift to Iran in late January spread quickly online. U.S. officials say the story is false and distracts from the more limited reality of Beijing’s ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out a new political framework for the war in Gaza by linking the completion of the return of all hostages to a transition to what he described as ...