Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Iran’s neighbor Iraq goes to the polls, the dams dry up outside Tehran, bread prices spike and why you might soon find yourself within range of an Iranian ...

Joe Kawly is the host of MBN’s podcast The Diplomat, covering the global contest for power and influence.  Artificial Intelligence will steal your judgment before it takes your job. The world’s ...

When Chinese President Xi Jinping was received in Riyadh in 2022 with an honor guard and desert fireworks, many in Washington saw a symbolic shift. But for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ...

Colleagues, MBN keeps chipping away, most recently hard at work on: “Disarming Hamas” (Yehia), “Hezbollah’s Schools of Hate ...

In a sign of the deepening strain between Hezbollah and Lebanon’s state institutions, the group’s deputy secretary general, Naim Qassem, on Oct. 21 accused the central-bank governor and the ...

Washington is hosting talks between the Sudanese government and the U.S. administration to explore ways to end the war and outline the contours of a new “road map” that the United States could ...

As Beijing quietly deepens its economic, diplomatic, and media footprint across the Middle East, its influence is increasingly felt in capitals from Riyadh to Rabat. With billions invested in ...

Assad’s regime, Syria remains splintered and volatile. In the country’s northwest, forces loyal to President Ahmed al-Sharaa have battled the “Ghuraba ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Today we travel from a national banking disaster to the Israel-friendly northern neighbor that increasingly worries Tehran to Latin America to see how the ...

As international efforts intensify to shape the day after the Gaza war, Israel is taking a firm position on one of the most sensitive issues: the deployment of foreign or international forces in ...

Erdoğan’s New Turkey, as illiberal as it is, can help build peace in the Middle East Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he ...

The path to the Palestinian Authority’s return to war-ravaged Gaza appears lined with difficult international conditions. Foremost among them is one set by President Donald J. Trump, who has made ...