The drone that exploded near the shelter where Sarwan and nine other fighters had taken cover didn’t spray the usual cloud of metal fragments. It released something they found even more ...

For more than four decades, Turkey has sought to crush the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) through military campaigns, mass arrests and the imprisonment of its leaders, amid an ...

After years of confrontation on the battlefield, Hezbollah and Syria’s new leadership appear to be sending increasingly clear signals that they may be willing to sit down at the same table. The ...

Over the past two days, Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has appointed veteran commanders to some of the country’s most powerful military and security posts, turning to officials who spent ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. You can read it in Arabic here, and check out MBN’s flagship Arabic-language Alhurra news platform (also in English). If you were forwarded the MBN Iran ...

The U.S.-backed body overseeing U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is standing by the reciprocal steps at its heart after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly ...

Two prominent senators, one Democrat and one Republican, have put their name on a bill that aims to support Lebanon’s sovereignty with the larger aim of curtailing Hezbollah. Senators Jeanne ...

Welcome back to the MBN Friday Briefing, our roundup of the best stories on our flagship Arabic-language Alhurra platform, which is also available in English. Read the Arabic version of this ...

Mohsen Rezaei, one of the longest-serving figures in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has returned to the heart of Tehran’s national security establishment, after Supreme Leader Mojtaba ...

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a joint defense agreement in Mecca on Friday in the presence of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and ...

On Monday night, Esmail Qaani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force — a U.S.-designated terrorist organization — moved between several locations across Baghdad on a visit that was never officially ...

A new agreement between Damascus and Moscow over Russia’s two main military facilities in Syria is set to significantly reduce the Kremlin’s presence in the country, raising a central question: Is ...