Iranian and Hezbollah commanders helped plan and carry out the Houthi offensive that seized the Red Sea port of Mocha this month, a former Houthi spokesman told MBN, calling it the first battle in ...

On Aug. 8, the Turkish Defense Ministry hired DC lobbying giant Ballard Partners for $2.4 million, apparently as part of its long-stalled effort to rejoin the F-35 fighter jet program. Turkey was ...

The Iraqi government is moving to restrict the activities of foreign military advisers, including Iranian officers, after Sept. 30, a date that Baghdad considers an important milestone in ...

Xi backed renewed U.S.-Iran talks at the White House but made no commitment to press Tehran. Analysts say Beijing benefits as the war ties down the U.S.

Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days. A U.S. official told Alhurra the talks are "positive" but Washington is "in no rush." ...

Trump and Xi hailed ties at a White House summit but gave few details on the Iran war, Hormuz, trade or AI. Xi backed a return to the Islamabad memorandum.

For years, Yasser Abbas, the son of 90-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, was known primarily as a businessman rather than a politician. But earlier this year, following a series of ...

Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States and the Middle East are still living, in different ways, with the questions that moment raised. Wars have erupted, ...

You can read it in Arabic here, and check out MBN’s flagship Arabic-language Alhurra news platform (English version here). This week’s edition of the briefing is a joint effort by our new ...

A sharp escalation by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia, coupled with their advance toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, prompted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to ask President Donald Trump ...

The Houthis have shocked the world with the speed and scale of their offensive to seize control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Equally surprising, however, was the restrained American reaction: The ...

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