On an October day in 1765, a young law student entered the printing office of the Virginia Gazette on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Virginia. Printing offices were the nerve centers ...

Founding Encounters Welcome to Founding Encounters, a new MBN series about the lesser known stories of the relationship ...

Iraq is preparing to receive the body of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as part of funeral ceremonies that will span Iran and Iraq. The event is framed as a Shiite ...

As Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa struggles to rebuild a fragile Syria, the foreign fighters in his own military are complicating his relations with Washington and could drag ...

Israel has no intention of staying permanently in southern Lebanon, but any withdrawal will depend on whether the Lebanese army can keep Hezbollah from returning to the border, Israel’s U.N.

The regional rivalry between Turkey and Iran is nothing new. But it entered a new phase at the end of 2024, when the government of Bashar al-Assad collapsed at the hands of Turkish-backed ...

Residents of Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone awoke before dawn on Sunday to an unusual sight in one of Iraq’s most secure neighborhoods. Military vehicles blocked entrances, ...

Just two weeks after the U.S. President Donald Trump signed the U.S.-Iran memorandum, its consequences are resonating across the Middle East. Israel has agreed in principle to begin withdrawing ...

Oil prices fell to pre-war levels. The Strait of Hormuz maritime traffic is carefully ramping up. Secretary of State Marco Rubio returned from his Gulf tour of reassuring wary Arab allies. There’s ...

For Arab Gulf countries, the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran began with promises to topple a regime they had considered an enemy for decades. Three months later, the battered Shia clerical regime ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Starting today, the Monday briefings will be looking ahead at the coming week. I’ll be highlighting the major potential flashpoints and what to watch for.

After years of hesitation, Israel on Sunday formally recognized the Armenian genocide, likely ushering in more contentious chapter in its already sharply deteriorating relationship ...