Welcome back to the MBN Agenda. You can read it in Arabic here, and check out MBN’s flagship Arabic-language Alhurra news platform (also in English). If the MBN Agenda was forwarded to you, please ...

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 security sources have revealed new details to MBN about an alleged arms smuggling operation that sought to move a shipment from Baghdad into Syria before delivering it to Hezbollah in ...

In late June, a rumor spread across Chinese social media. Cabo Verde, the tiny African island nation of 500,000 people that had just charmed the World Cup, had supposedly invited China to a ...

Last week, on July 9, Israeli President Isaac Herzog posted an innocuous message on X that he almost certainly didn’t expect to receive 1.6 million views. The post announced that he had just sworn ...

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 rifle resting against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s podium was never just a weapon. It was a symbol of the Islamic Republic itself—a visual fusion of religious authority and military power ...

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 ...

An anti-corruption campaign ordered by Iraq’s new prime minister is widening into the upper ranks of the state, unsettling the country’s Shiite political establishment and turning graft ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clandestine opposition groups in Iran that initially used Molotov cocktails against security facilities say they have recently begun using assault rifles and grenades to target members of the ...