Dear Colleagues, Winston Churchill said, it’s been claimed, that “the Balkans produce more history than they can consume.” ...

Adhering to the proverb “decapitating heads is a lesser evil than cutting off livelihoods”, Lebanon’s Hezbollah is confronting U.S. demands that the Lebanese state curb the financial loopholes ...

Egypt’s 2025 parliamentary elections were expected to proceed seamlessly and uneventfully reflecting a relatively closed political environment and largely pre-determined electoral maps. But the ...

In his weekly episode on Alhurra’s digital platforms, writer and journalist Ibrahim Essa reflects on what he calls “superficial religiosity.” He asks: How did faith change from a core that ...

Carl Gershman is the founding president of the National Endowment for Democracy A few months ago, to my own astonishment, I found myself at the bombed-out remains of the oldest synagogue in Syria.

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. The domestic, the regional, and the global are ever intertwined, and the big Iran news doesn’t always come out of Iran. It might come when the crown prince ...

U.S.-Saudi relations are poised for a new chapter as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Washington for talks with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. Observers say the ...

Our weekly briefing on what’s driving events in the Middle East and Washington By Joe Kawly, Aya Elbaz, Ezat Wagdi, and Cheyn Shah Welcome back to the MBN Agenda. Every Tuesday – before dawn in ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa left Washington after three days of intensive meetings in the U.S. capital. Questions abound about whether his visit marked the beginning of a genuine openness ...

The easiest stage has ended, and the hardest has begun in Iraq’s electoral process, which took place on Tuesday, as voters cast their ballots to elect a new 329-member parliament representing the ...

Lebanese officials have for so long said that Lebanon would be “the last to sign” a peace treaty with Israel. Even politicians opposed to Hezbollah used to repeat this mantra. In August 2006, after a ...

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 in ...