For decades, Pakistan quietly helped bolster Gulf security by deploying troops, training military officers and cultivating close intelligence ties with the energy-rich Arab monarchies. Now it is ...
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).  Here is what you need to know this ...
The United States will continue its military strikes against Iran despite ongoing talks between the two countries, a White House official told MBN, underscoring the Trump administration’s ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi asked Iranian officials during his visit to Tehran to guarantee the safe passage of tankers chartered to transport Iraqi oil through the Strait of Hormuz, amid ...
Iranian officials pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi during his recent visit to Tehran to repay $11 billion in outstanding debt accumulated over years of Iraqi imports of Iranian natural ...
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 ...
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 ...
In a recent interview, President Donald Trump once again raised the idea of allowing Syria to intervene in Lebanon. He suggested that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa might do a better job of ...
Three sources within Iraq’s ruling Shiite Coordination Framework said Iran reacted with broad concern after Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi met with U.S. President Donald Trump in ...
The crisis in the Strait has forced Iraq to reassess its participation in OPEC, the cartel-like organization of petroleum-producing countries founded to coordinate prices and supply in the market.
Throughout American history, few years have been as bleak as 1777.   On land, British troops had seized several major cities. They had captured New York, then Philadelphia – the de facto capital ...
A senior Yemeni Foreign Ministry official told MBN that Iran has recently sent to Yemen commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), military advisers, missiles and drone ...