The United States, Israel, and Syria announced in a joint statement issued by the U.S. State Department on Tuesday that Syrian and Israeli representatives had reached an understanding during ...

Israel’s public broadcaster reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has enlisted Russian President Vladimir Putin to convey calming messages to Iran, signaling that Israel does not intend, ...

The GCC states are undergoing a rapid transformation in the management of their public finances, as oil revenues retreat from their role as the near-exclusive engine of government spending and as ...

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 Happy New Year! And welcome back to MBN Agenda, our weekly look at the stories driving the news in the region and Washington. Brought to you by the Middle East ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks regarding the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces reflected an official view in Israel that what occurred constituted a ...

What keeps the Middle East awake at night in 2026? To find out, we reached out to two dozen of the leading voices in regional statecraft—ranging from a former Israeli Prime Minister to veteran ...

Informed sources inside Iran told Alhurra that Iranian security forces have used live ammunition against demonstrators protesting the country’s worsening economic conditions, particularly in Ilam ...

With every political crisis in the GCC region, the digital space erupts in a parallel arena of confrontation alongside the political dispute. Debate on social media platforms stiffens rapidly, ...

Iran’s efforts to quell anti-government protests have become knotty by a threat from U.S. President Donald Trump to intervene in support of demonstrators, Iranian officials and people familiar ...

Amid rapidly unfolding events in southern and eastern Yemen, the Southern Transitional Council (STC) announced on Friday its intention to hold a referendum on the independence of southern Yemen ...

The war in Sudan is no longer confined within its borders or limited to the edges of the Blue Nile region. Signs are emerging of a new and more dangerous phase, as Sudanese intelligence reports ...

Yemen’s unity is no longer a foregone conclusion. The shared experience forged by history over more than three decades of unity has not guaranteed that geography will remain unchanged; it may ...