A sharp escalation by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia, coupled with their advance toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, prompted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to ask President Donald Trump ...
Iranian cinema arrived at the Venice Film Festival this year with two feature films. Both reflected a strategy increasingly familiar in Iranian life: there is one version presented to the ...
Since the outbreak of the Iran war this year, Saudi Arabia has built new military alliances, deepened diplomatic engagement with Iran and diversified oil export routes to shield itself from the ...
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An attack on a Saudi oil pipeline was carried out by small armed groups that recently broke away from established Iraqi factions aligned with Tehran, Iraqis familiar with the matter told MBN. An ...
For weeks, people on Persian-language social media have been asking about the fate of Mohammad-Bagher Kharrazi, a senior cleric with close ties to the leadership of the regime. Early last month, ...
The Trump administration says the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to shipping and that the U.S. Navy controls the waterway after clearing Iranian mines and securing the passage of vessels not ...
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). The war widened again this week. Riyadh ...
Satellite imagery showed a black smoke plume at Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline after being attacked on Thursday, prompting the kingdom to shut the line down. A senior Saudi official said ...
Mohammed Ali was 20 years old when he sat in front of his television in Baghdad on Sept. 11, 2001, watching the news unfold from half a world away. He had little interest in what was happening in ...
For much of the summer, the Trump administration has sought to keep its war with Iran from activating the Middle East’s other fault lines. The Saudi-Houthi front in Yemen, largely quiet since a ...