With every FIFA World Cup featuring Arab national teams, an old debate returns: Can football unite people who share the Arabic language? The tournament often rekindles a sense of pan-Arab ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi held two separate meetings in late June with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, both marked by clear tensions over ...

Some 20,000 Uyghurs have put down roots in Syria, originally drawn by the fight to oust former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In the meantime they are running bakeries, building homes, and ...

The Iraqi government is seeking to resolve one of the most consequential issues in its relationship with Washington — the future of Iran-aligned armed factions — as Baghdad prepares to end the ...

For decades, such meetings would have been almost unimaginable. During his recent visit to Beirut, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani met Lebanon’s three top state leaders as well as ...

Iraq is preparing to receive the body of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as part of funeral ceremonies that will span Iran and Iraq. The event is framed as a Shiite ...

For more than four decades, Iran has stayed deeply involved in the conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), often seeking to obstruct deescalation attempts by both ...

Time was running out for Donia Lehaf and her two teenage children. They had fled the violence in their native Lebanon in 2024 and come to the United States under Temporary Protected Status ...

Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) is the premier, Arabic-first language source of news and commentary connecting the ...

There comes a moment in every lost war when language becomes the last weapon standing. The ammunition runs out, the front lines collapse, and all that remains is the communiqué. This week offered ...

Here are the five things you need to know this week.  Funeral ceremonies for Iran’s slain supreme leader continue today. His son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, has yet to appear at any of the ...

Residents of Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone awoke before dawn on Sunday to an unusual sight in one of Iraq’s most secure neighborhoods. Military vehicles blocked entrances, ...