The naval blockade is back. Two tankers were hit by missiles in the Gulf of Oman, and Iran and the UAE can’t agree on whether they were legitimate targets or just ships in the wrong lane. Britain ...

Four years into the war on Ukraine, one of the most fruitful diplomatic channels between Moscow and Kyiv doesn’t run through Washington, Brussels, or Geneva; it runs through Abu Dhabi. Since ...

When Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falah al-Zaidi arrived in Washington this week, the American message was ready before any meetings began. A senior U.S. State Department official told MBN that ...

The killing of an Iraqi fisherman by Kuwait’s coast guard in disputed waters has reignited a longstanding border dispute between Baghdad and Kuwait City. The incident occurred in the early hours ...

Lebanese authorities are investigating a man arrested at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport on suspicion of providing Israel with sensitive intelligence that may have contributed to ...

Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait launched sweeping security campaigns and arrested dozens of citizens for being traitors loyal to Iran after Tehran retaliated for U.S. Israeli strikes ...

Iran is facing challenges in Iraq that it has not encountered in years. Iraq’s new government, led by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, has declared its intention to bring all weapons under state ...

The U.S. State Department is aware of reports that President Donald Trump has given Saudi Arabia the green light to launch military action against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement ...

Iranian Kurdish opposition parties say the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has deployed thousands of troops and heavy weapons to areas near the border with Iraq’s Kurdistan Region ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi arrived in Washington on Monday for an official visit as his government seeks to open a new chapter in relations with the United States centered on investment and ...

A few weeks ago, over dinner at a Gulf hotel, a Western diplomat asked me what sounded like an innocent question: “Why are you so determined to keep the Americans in the region? Wouldn’t ...

The United States has resumed striking Iran, yet both sides continue to treat the June 17 memorandum as the framework for negotiations. That contradiction now hangs over the region: the ceasefire ...