Amid a strained Gulf climate, Kuwait found itself this week at the center of a lavish celebration offered by the United Arab Emirates. The question that hovered on the margins of this scene, ...

As part of efforts to expand and deepen regional cooperation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is set to arrive in Saudi Arabia tomorrow, before heading to Egypt on Wednesday. While the ...

Welcome back to the MBN Agenda, our look at the events driving the news in the Middle East in the week to come. We start with Iran. This week’s Briefing takes you inside Washington as the Trump ...

Turkey’s preparation for an Iran crisis is not only military. It is also geopolitical.  Ankara is now operating on the assumption that a U.S. military strike on Iran is a real possibility. It is ...

Washington is receiving sharply conflicting messages from Israel and Saudi Arabia as President Trump weighs military action against Iran. A former Gulf diplomat told MBN’s ...

Iraq’s effort to form a new government stalled again this week, and this time the deadlock centered squarely on Washington. For the second time, parliament failed to convene a session to elect a ...

As President Donald Trump weighs military action against Iran, the debate inside Washington is less about authorization than framing. A senior State Department official told MBN there is no clear ...

At a highly critical sensitive regional juncture, Saudi Arabia has stepped up its diplomatic activity in Washington, seeking to push toward a negotiated track with Iran, amid a growing U.S.

Welcome back to the Friday Briefing, our weekly round-up of MBN’s best reporting that drove the news in the Middle East and ...

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan has reopened debate over the future of disagreements between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi and the prospects for containing or managing tensions, saying that the ...

The writer and media figure Ibrahim Essa raises a long-controversial and emotionally charged question that has often been met with anger and sensitivity: did the Prophet Muhammad’s “illiteracy” ...

As U.S. President Donald Trump considers launching military strikes against Iran, the U.S. administration is keeping the legal basis for any potential action deliberately open-ended—subject to ...