At Tehran’s Saadabad Palace on Thursday morning, the Iraqi and Iranian national anthems were played as Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Faleh al-Zaidi inspected an honor guard alongside Iranian ...

Recent security arrests in Lebanon suggest that the Islamic State has rebuilt its presence in the country through clandestine networks and cells. The latest arrest involved a Syrian national who ...

President Donald Trump has raised new questions about the U.S.-Saudi civilian nuclear agreement after saying its implementation depends on Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with ...

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 ...

The financial adviser to Iraq’s prime minister, Mazhar Mohammed Saleh, estimated that the Iran war has cost Iraq between $40 billion and $45 billion, driven by a sharp decline in oil exports ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iraq and Syria signed an agreement on Friday to rebuild the pipeline that carries Iraqi crude to Syria’s Mediterranean port of Banias, marking Baghdad’s latest effort to secure an ...