As tensions in the Strait of Hormuz continue to disrupt global energy markets, China is reassessing one of the most sensitive equations in its energy strategy: its heavy reliance on discounted ...

In Beirut, traces of the war with Israel still linger across parts of the city: cracked buildings, shuttered storefronts, and slow-moving reconstruction crews working through neighborhoods ...

A friend sent me a satellite image of his house in southern Lebanon — or rather, the gray patch of ash where it used to stand. He had spent years building it stone by stone, only for it to vanish ...

In a conversation with Jeffrey Gedmin, MBN’s President and CEO, Abdalrahim Abdallah, MBN Executive Editor, says Gaza’s reconstruction will depend more on sustained American pressure than on Arab ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. This week, the war will reach its three-month mark. The U.S. and Iran may be closer to ...

A deal is almost done, says the U.S. president. Iran denies it. The Strait remains closed. President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the framework had been “largely negotiated,” then ...

Have you ever wondered who you would have been if you had been born in Helsinki?” That’s what my friend Manal, with whom I spent so many childhood summers fig picking in our native village of ...

In Egypt, fear of marriage is no longer tied only to the cost of getting married — but increasingly to what happens if it falls apart. Alimony payments, custody and visitation disputes, family ...

For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been associated in the global imagination with oil — and with the recurring question of whether Iran could threaten energy flows through one of the world’s ...

The latest round of U.S. sanctions on Lebanon has gone beyond targeting politicians and financial networks linked to Hezbollah, reaching instead into the heart of the country’s official security ...

The Trump administration has moved beyond ideological debate in its approach to the Muslim Brotherhood, placing the issue at the center of its 2026 counterterrorism and national security strategy.

The new Iraqi government of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi is facing an early test in relations with Gulf states after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said they had come under drone attacks ...