For decades, such meetings would have been almost unimaginable. During his recent visit to Beirut, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani met Lebanon’s three top state leaders as well as ...

The Iraqi government is seeking to resolve one of the most consequential issues in its relationship with Washington — the future of Iran-aligned armed factions — as Baghdad prepares to end the ...

For more than four decades, Iran has stayed deeply involved in the conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), often seeking to obstruct deescalation attempts by both ...

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 ...

There comes a moment in every lost war when language becomes the last weapon standing. The ammunition runs out, the front lines collapse, and all that remains is the communiqué. This week offered ...

Time was running out for Donia Lehaf and her two teenage children. They had fled the violence in their native Lebanon in 2024 and come to the United States under Temporary Protected Status ...

Here are the five things you need to know this week.  Funeral ceremonies for Iran’s slain supreme leader continue today. His son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, has yet to appear at any of the ...

Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) is the premier, Arabic-first language source of news and commentary connecting the ...

Iraqi authorities have seized or frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, real estate, gold and other assets as part of a sweeping anti-corruption investigation that government sources and ...

This is a densely packed week for U.S. foreign policy. Three diplomatic tracks vital to the Middle East are moving simultaneously, and President Donald Trump has proclaimed progress on each one.

A proposed Saudi-Turkish railway linking the Persian Gulf to Europe through Jordan, Syria and Turkey has sparked concern in Israel, where officials view the project as a challenge to the ...

Long before he became America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson bought a copy of the Quran from a Williamsburg printing office. He read it not as scripture, but as law, part of a wider search ...