Tuesday December 9th, 2025 Welcome back to MBN Agenda — your window into how Washington shapes the Middle East, and how the Middle East shapes Washington. This is a new offering from the Middle ...
The United States has made a dramatic shift in how it handles the war in Sudan: President Donald Trump is now following the file personally. He is “not delegating it,” but overseeing it himself, ...
In a move that marks a significant shift in U.S. military doctrine, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Wednesday the formation of the first operational unit of suicide-attack drones in the ...
Dear Colleagues, Iran is struggling at home. Gas prices are about to jump. There are signs that an increasingly anxious ...
In a year marked by decreasing oil prices and mounting uncertainty in global markets, Saudi Arabia is heading into a new fiscal year with a projected deficit of 165 billion riyals, according to ...
In the early hours of Thursday, December 4, the name “Wadi Hadramout” echoed once again after fierce clashes erupted on the plateau surrounding the Petromasila oil facilities between forces from ...
Beirut’s Southern Suburb — universally known simply as the Dahieh — needs no introduction. The phrase alone commands attention in Lebanon, across the region and beyond. Over the years, the Dahieh ...
I came to the W&OD Trail to clear my head, nothing more. But a few minutes in, I slowed down—not from tiredness, but because the trail felt like it was holding a story I didn’t know. I realized I wasn ...
The joint missile defense emerged as the most prominent issue on the agenda of the 46th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit, held on December 3, 2025, in Bahrain. The attention was not ...
China is upping its security game in the Middle East– and Washington is taking notice. While the U.S. remains far and away the biggest supplier of weapons and the preeminent outside military ...
Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Martin Scorsese once said, “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.” This week, we’ll look at how one of Iran’s most successful filmmakers ...
In his weekly program on Alhurra’s digital platforms, author and journalist Ibrahim Essa examines what he describes as the war extremists wage against art. He explains how hardline Salafist ...
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