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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Gulf Arab nations are moving swiftly to repair relations with Iran as Tehran and the United States negotiate a final peace agreement after their devastating war. Rather than relying exclusively on ...

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 ...

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 ...

In exile in Russia, Bashar al-Assad has offered little clue about how he understands his fall: as defeat, betrayal, or the price of a rule built on fear. Bashar al-Assad’s exile reportedly ...