Friday, December 26, 2025 Happy Holidays! 2025 will go down as one of the most eventful in recent Middle Eastern history. Conflicts, latent or active, have shattered the decades-long status quo ...

We have seen this before: brothers committing murders together just as they once shared childhood — like the Tsarnaev brothers in the Boston Marathon bombing. We have also seen married couples who ...

After the change in Syria’s political leadership, Damascus and Baghdad have kept diplomatic channels open between them, although the latter has not removed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa from ...

On December 13, 2025, an Islamic State gunman carried out an attack in Palmyra, in central Syria, killing two U.S. soldiers and a translator. The attack took place at the entrance to a facility ...

As senior air force commanders from the Sultanate of Oman and Saudi Arabia were meeting in Muscat, images began circulating on social media showing Saudi fighter jets carrying out what were ...

For nearly four decades, Egyptian-Iranian relations have existed in a gray zone. At various points, contacts between Cairo and Tehran have taken place, but they never rose to a level of “normal” ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing, a new offering from the premier Arabic-first American news and commentary platform about the Middle East.. This week, we look at the seven moments and themes ...

As the year draws to a close, Lebanon is entering a delicate phase in which efforts to confine weapons to state authority north of the Litani River have moved to the forefront of political and ...

The biggest and most followed events of 2025 were the region’s wars: Iran-Israel, Gaza, Sudan and Yemen. Our audience certainly followed them, but a closer look at the most popular stories on our ...

The international presence in southern Lebanon has entered a countdown phase, as United Nations peacekeeping forces (UNIFIL) begin reducing their troop levels. A quarter of the force has been ...

In Washington, the mood around Syria has turned unexpectedly hopeful. The fall of Bashar al-Assad has opened what many officials see as a rare political reset: a chance for a new leader, Ahmad ...

Averting a potential Israeli escalation was not the sole focus of Egypt’s recent diplomatic engagements with Lebanon. Cairo has also moved to open the door to economic cooperation with Beirut ...