Washington is not looking for a way back to the negotiating table with Iran. Not yet. A senior State Department official told MBN that the Trump administration was not actively pursuing talks with ...

The White House rejected any attempt by Iran to toll ships in the Strait of Hormuz, despite a reported Omani plan allowing ships to make voluntary contributions. In comments to MBN on Tuesday, a ...

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).  Five months into the war, Hormuz ...

Zaidi’s visit to Saudi Arabia, Riyadh said it had come under drone attacks on Monday and Tuesday by drones launched from Iraq by Iran-backed militias.

Five advisers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in U.S.-Saudi airstrikes targeting Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq, sources familiar with the matter told MBN.

Something unusual may be happening to Lebanon. Not on the battlefield, but at the negotiating table. For decades, Lebanese politics has been built upon an implicit assumption: that nothing ...

Iran has actively sought to export its ideology to Africa since the 1979 revolution, but its aims and tactics have shifted considerably over time from promoting its brand of Shia Islam to a ...

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 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held their first face-to-face talks since the Iran war began behind closed doors Tuesday, leaving ...

American and foreign leaders gathered in Washington on Tuesday to honor the late Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the most influential voices in American foreign policy and among the most forceful ...

Central, South Carolina, a mill town of a few thousand people, has never produced a president, a secretary of state, or a state governor. But it did bring to the world the senator who, over three ...

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 ...