Iraq’s parliament voted Thursday to approve the government of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, passing 14 ministries out of a proposed 23, with the remaining cabinet posts to be voted on at a later ...

Welcome to Beijing, Mr. President. The Iran war serves as an ominous backdrop to the first China visit by a U.S. president in nine years. While both leaders want the Strait of Hormuz open–China is ...

Israeli and Lebanese negotiators met at the State Department on Thursday in a race to prevent the collapse of a fragile ceasefire before it expires Sunday, with President Donald Trump and ...

Reporting from southern Lebanon, MBN’s correspondent Yehia Kassem joined Israeli army units on a field tour in the border town of Khiam, where widespread destruction remains after recent ...

As a new round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel opened in Washington, set to last two days, a U.S. State Department official told MBN that repealing Lebanon’s law banning contact with ...

From the early morning hours, Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone appeared unusually tense. Roads leading into the area were completely closed, access was restricted to holders of special permits, and ...

As the United States intensifies pressure on Iraqi political forces to demilitarize Iran-backed armed factions and reduce their influence within state institutions, an important question emerges ...

Ceasefires in previous Israel-Hezbollah wars once offered southern Lebanese families certainty: they would return to their villages despite the destruction. Roads would reopen quickly, debris ...

As the U.S. and Chinese presidents meet, Iran looms in the background. Meanwhile, Iranian cinema is once again represented at the Cannes film festival, and human rights abuses in Iran continue ...

In February, just a few kilometers from the Omani border, a drone targeted a Toyota Corolla in the city of Al-Ghaydah, the capital of Yemen’s eastern Al-Mahrah province. Later, the identity of the ...

Tehran is speaking about the Strait of Hormuz as a broader maritime arena, not a narrow waterway, for testing the limits of power and deterrence in the Gulf. In a move that appeared closer to a ...

President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing this week for the first state visit of his second term, without a ceasefire, a nuclear framework, or a Hormuz agreement in hand. He comes having just ...