On Aug. 8, the Turkish Defense Ministry hired DC lobbying giant Ballard Partners for $2.4 million, apparently as part of its long-stalled effort to rejoin the F-35 fighter jet program. Turkey was ...

Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days. A U.S. official told Alhurra the talks are "positive" but Washington is "in no rush." ...

Xi backed renewed U.S.-Iran talks at the White House but made no commitment to press Tehran. Analysts say Beijing benefits as the war ties down the U.S.

Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States and the Middle East are still living, in different ways, with the questions that moment raised. Wars have erupted, ...

For years, Yasser Abbas, the son of 90-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, was known primarily as a businessman rather than a politician. But earlier this year, following a series of ...

Trump and Xi hailed ties at a White House summit but gave few details on the Iran war, Hormuz, trade or AI. Xi backed a return to the Islamabad memorandum.

Four years after Mahsa Amini’s death led to the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, Amnesty International has published a report that examines a question largely still unanswered: Who was responsible ...

You can read it in Arabic here, and check out MBN’s flagship Arabic-language Alhurra news platform (English version here). This week’s edition of the briefing is a joint effort by our new ...

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran if an agreement is not reached, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday in a speech at the U.N. General ...

China’s direct investment across the Middle East and North Africa surged last year, driven by a massive influx of capital into the United Arab Emirates and new spending along North African ...

As President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping trade greetings — and pandas! — at Xi’s first visit to the White House in more than a decade, MBN takes a look behind the scenes. Trump ...

On March 8, 1805, at the edge of the Egyptian desert, an American namedWilliam Eaton was preparing to do what the United States had never donebefore: attempt regime change. He had gathered an odd ...