On the outskirts of Turmus Ayya, where the town thins out and homes become more exposed, stands the house of Palestinian American Samir Hamza. Its location, some distance from the center of town, ...
In June 2024, just months before his death, Hassan Nasrallah, the former Secretary-General of Hezbollah, directly threatened the island of Cyprus, saying the group would target it if Israel used its ...
China is seeking a bigger voice in shaping the future of Middle East security as governments across the region reassess their strategic ties with the United States in the wake of the war with ...
Iraqi officials often insist that the Popular Mobilization Forces are an integral part of the country’s national security apparatus. They point to a 2016 law passed by Iraq’s Parliament that ...
The Mecca Defense Alliance took a significant step toward becoming a formal regional security bloc this week, as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan agreed to establish a permanent secretariat in ...
Clashes have flared again in Syria’s southern Suweida province, marking the most serious escalation in months between government forces and Druze fighters who control most of the region. The ...
Gulf countries are facing mounting pressure to cut ties with Iran as Washington intensifies its effort to economically isolate Tehran through tougher sanctions. Although it remains unclear how ...
President Donald Trump said the latest round of U.S. strikes on Iran would not last long, even as Washington prepares to keep some of its forces deployed across the Middle East into 2027 — a sign ...
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). The war widened again this week. Riyadh ...
Read the Arabic version of this newsletter here. If you were forwarded this Friday Briefing, subscribe here. We’d love to hear from you at thebriefing@mbn-news.com. This week, we follow the guns, ...
Egyptian and Chinese flags have proliferated along roads in Cairo and Giza, around Cairo International Airport and near the Grand Egyptian Museum in anticipation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ...
The war roiling the Middle East is putting the Gulf’s vast sovereign wealth under a new kind of strain, as governments confront mounting pressure on public spending and revenues and disruptions to ...