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 ...

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). Nearly 60 entities joined the U.S.

The United States is insisting that the Iraqi government establish full control over weapons in the country, pushing back against a possible compromise reported by MBN to allow militia groups tied ...

With direct military operations temporarily paused, the United States is shifting its confrontation with Iran to the economic front. But the new campaign outlined Monday goes beyond traditional ...

Qatar has cut the budgets of several government departments by as much as 30%, a sign that the economic fallout from the war is spreading beyond energy facilities and shipping lanes to government ...

After demanding Iran recall its top diplomat for working to undermine its authority, the Lebanese government appears prepared to allow him to remain in the country as a private resident. Mohammad ...

A White House report has identified five Middle Eastern countries as potential conduits for Chinese goods being illegally rerouted to the U.S. market, warning that ports, free-trade zones and ...

The Trump administration on Monday threatened to cut foreign banks and businesses out of the U.S. financial system unless they sever economic ties with Iran, launching what Treasury ...

Leaders in Baghdad are discussing a plan to disarm Iranian-aligned militias without giving the Iraqi government full control of their weapons, sources familiar with the matter told MBN. The goal ...

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). If you were forwarded the MBN Iran ...

The Pentagon is testing a new generation of defense systems aimed at narrowing the gap between the cost of an attacking drone and the cost of shooting it down. The wars in Iran and Ukraine have ...

In the 1820s, in the settlement of Little Pigeon Creek in Indiana, a lanky, dark-haired boy picked up an unusual book. For a child who had lost his mother at only nine, books were more than mere ...