U.S. and allied forces left their last remaining base in Iraq on Wednesday, completing a mission that began with the fight against ISIS. They leave behind a country navigating a wider regional ...

British authorities are investigating a suspected plot targeting a military base used by the United States in strikes against Iran, an incident that Washington and London have suggested could ...

Gulf and Iraqi officials told MBN this week that Iran has sent messages to Saudi Arabia denying responsibility for an attack earlier this month on the kingdom’s East-West oil pipeline, while ...

Over more than a decade, the Iran-backed Houthis have transformed themselves from a group reliant largely on small arms and medium weapons into a formidable military force armed with ballistic and ...

The American-Israeli war against Iran is now in its seventh month, but Western policymakers and commentators continue to overlook one of the most fundamental reasons for their own inability to ...

On the night of September 17, Damascus witnessed something it had not seen in fifteen years. Assala Nasri, the Syrian-born superstar who had lived in exile since she bravely threw her support ...

Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian offer on Saturday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, his envoys continued talks with Iranian officials in New York, with Qatar acting as ...

Houthi control of Yemen's Red Sea coast and the Bab al-Mandab could benefit al-Qaida affiliates AQAP and al-Shabab, experts tell MBN.

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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 ...

Baghdad has secured an exemption from Washington allowing Iranian flights to and from the Shiite holy city of Najaf, following U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran’s aviation sector, an Iraqi ...

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.