Our weekly briefing on what’s driving events in the Middle East and Washington By Joe Kawly, Aya Elbaz, Ezat Wagdi, and Cheyn Shah Welcome back to the MBN Agenda, our in-depth weekly look at how ...

Israel’s assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Haitham al-Tabtabai in an airstrike on a residential building in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday has raised questions about whether or not ...

In his weekly program on Alhurra’s digital platforms, writer and journalist Ibrahim Essa examines the concept of Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama‘a (the people of the Sunni sect who adhere to the teachings ...

My son’s fate has been unknown since he returned to Iran about six months ago. He returned after receiving an ‘assurance letter’ from the Iranian consulate in Sulaymaniyah,” says Fatemeh ...

In what looks like a race among them, Gulf countries are trying to attract professional talents and secure the labor force needed to carry out their development plans. Over the past few years, ...

Dear Colleagues, Winston Churchill said, it’s been claimed, that “the Balkans produce more history than they can consume.” ...

Adhering to the proverb “decapitating heads is a lesser evil than cutting off livelihoods”, Lebanon’s Hezbollah is confronting U.S. demands that the Lebanese state curb the financial loopholes ...

In his weekly episode on Alhurra’s digital platforms, writer and journalist Ibrahim Essa reflects on what he calls “superficial religiosity.” He asks: How did faith change from a core that ...

American novelist, academic, and former diplomat who teaches at Dartmouth College. His most recent novel is Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge. On Nov.

Carl Gershman is the founding president of the National Endowment for Democracy A few months ago, to my own astonishment, I found myself at the bombed-out remains of the oldest synagogue in Syria.

In a spacious hall at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., dozens of senior executives from major Saudi and American companies gathered for an unprecedented investment conference. The room ...

U.S.-Saudi relations are poised for a new chapter as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Washington for talks with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. Observers say the ...