Lebanon’s future may now depend on one man’s balancing act. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is trying to hold together a country that’s falling apart without firing a shot. To Washington and ...

After long years of absence, major American oil and energy companies are returning to Iraq with contracts worth billions of dollars, covering fields that stretch from Basra in the south to Mosul ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Iranians have gotten used to having to wait – for bread, fuel, a car. Some would say they’ve been waiting for different leadership. This week’s theme is ...

Iraqi politicians should seize the opportunity to curtail Iran’s influence. Washington Can Help. Akeel Abbas, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, focuses on national and religious ...

Welcome to the debut edition of MBN Agenda. Every Tuesday – before dawn in Washington, in the early afternoon in the Middle East – the four of us will provide our readers in the Arab world with an ...

Colleagues, I’m always in awe over what you do under exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our editorial team leans into ...

Gulf countries are entering a new phase of monetary transformation, with digital currency markets witnessing an unprecedented boom. These nations have already made significant strides, positioning ...

On a Tuesday evening in Cairo, the screens were on fire. A crowded downtown café was glued to the Liverpool–Real Madrid match, eyes tracking every touch by Mohamed Salah – the young man who ...

Fourteen years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s frozen assets remain buried under layers of sanctions, bureaucracy, and mistrust, even as ordinary Libyans still lack the most basic ...

Ballistic missiles “without limits” – that is what Iran has been promoting since the beginning of October 2025, when Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decided to lift restrictions on the range ...

The peace plan isn’t keeping up with reality on the ground. Ezzedine C. Fishere is an Egyptian-American novelist, academic, and former diplomat who teaches at Dartmouth College. His most recent ...

Except for the Wadi Gaza – which today is little more than a polluted water basin – no real river runs through the Gaza Strip. Even that Wadi barely reaches the sea. Its flow is choked off by ...