Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. The domestic, the regional, and the global are ever intertwined, and the big Iran news doesn’t always come out of Iran. It might come when the crown prince ...

Carl Gershman is the founding president of the National Endowment for Democracy A few months ago, to my own astonishment, I found myself at the bombed-out remains of the oldest synagogue in Syria.

U.S.-Saudi relations are poised for a new chapter as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Washington for talks with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. Observers say the ...

Our weekly briefing on what’s driving events in the Middle East and Washington By Joe Kawly, Aya Elbaz, Ezat Wagdi, and Cheyn Shah Welcome back to the MBN Agenda. Every Tuesday – before dawn in ...

In his weekly program on Alhurra’s digital platforms, author and journalist Ibrahim Eissa tackles what he calls the phenomenon of “fatwa madness,” asking: How did religion shift from being a ...

Dear Colleagues, When I lived in Prague I traveled a lot for RFE/RL and used to see retired tennis star Martina Navratilova ...

After long years of absence, major American oil and energy companies are returning to Iraq with contracts worth billions of dollars, covering fields that stretch from Basra in the south to Mosul ...

Colleagues, I’m always in awe over what you do under exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our editorial team leans into ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa left Washington after three days of intensive meetings in the U.S. capital. Questions abound about whether his visit marked the beginning of a genuine openness ...

The easiest stage has ended, and the hardest has begun in Iraq’s electoral process, which took place on Tuesday, as voters cast their ballots to elect a new 329-member parliament representing the ...

Lebanon’s future may now depend on one man’s balancing act. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is trying to hold together a country that’s falling apart without firing a shot. To Washington and ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Iranians have gotten used to having to wait – for bread, fuel, a car. Some would say they’ve been waiting for different leadership. This week’s theme is ...