Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a joint defense agreement in Mecca on Friday in the presence of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and ...

The Middle East has a peculiar kind of alliance: relationships that warm as investment rises, become fraternal when contracts are signed, then rediscover the virtues of neutrality and restraint ...

Washington—As negotiations stall between the U.S. and Iran, the White House’s policy on the Iran War has recently become characterized by the relative influence of Vice President JD Vance and ...

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, is the highest-ranking military officer in the United States. He advises. He recommends. He cannot order the president to do anything.

Iraqi sources told MBN that security agencies are tracking a network of small cells directly linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), operating outside the structures of ...

Iraqi intelligence agencies have information suggesting that armed factions may be preparing to target Saudi Arabia, prompting a series of security measures over the past several hours, including ...

Iran has received hundreds of Chinese and Russian shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles during recent ceasefire periods, as it moves to rebuild its air defense network severely damaged during the ...

The Syrian military carried out a series of changes to field command positions this week as part of a broader effort to restructure the armed forces. The moves coincided with a military alert on ...

A U.S. official told MBN on Thursday that Washington would not accept any arrangement in the Strait of Hormuz that requires permits, imposes transit fees or grants any party control over ...

International and U.S. oil companies operating in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region halted production amid conflict in the region – making them the latest casualties of a conflict in which the Kurds ...

A severe fuel shortage, a crippled banking sector and rapidly accelerating inflation have pushed Iran’s economy deeper into crisis as the war drags on, exposing the country’s growing ...

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