Welcome back to the MBN Agenda, our intel brief on the week ahead in the region.  Donald Trump’s “massive Armada” of U.S. Navy vessels remains on high alert in the Gulf, but the action, for now, ...

In January 2026, Russian fighter jets painted the colors of the Emirati flag across the skies of Moscow in a ceremonial welcome for UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed, who visited the city and met ...

News about Gulf sovereign wealth funds is no longer limited to returns and deal sizes. In recent months, these entities—which manage hundreds of billions of dollars—have begun reshuffling their ...

Hezbollah was never merely a political party in Lebanon, nor an ordinary militia. It has long been an actor that transcended the logic of conventional electoral competition. Its organized military ...

Muscat is not only about centrifuges. It is also about Iran’s proxies, and Washington treated it that way from the start. U.S. and Iranian envoys met Friday in Oman with a narrow purpose: ...

Iraq’s political deadlock now turns on a single question: does Nouri al-Maliki come back?  His bid to return to power has pushed the government formation crisis into a more volatile phase, ...

Mr. Berri is a major problem. He has been in his position for 34 years. He has been left intact for generations, while his vast wealth sits with relatives in Dearborn, Michigan.” With these harsh ...

A U.S. B-2 stealth bomber took off toward Iran carrying more than bombs. Behind the aircraft’s ability to evade radar and strike deep, hardened targets is a quieter dependency: the critical ...

Muscat delivered a pause in U.S.–Iran tensions, but the margin is thin. The talks ended “for now,” a wording U.S. officials say was intentional, a signal that the channel remains open even as both ...

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 ...

Amid the nationwide protests that have shaken Iran in recent weeks—brutally suppressed by the regime at the cost of countless dead—there was one particularly striking detail. Some of the ...

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