Washington cannot impose democracy in Syria, nor should it try to. But it can endorse Syria’s territorial unity while insisting that unity without minority rights is a recipe for more instability.

Iran has often stood at the crossroads of social and political metamorphosis and regional geopolitical recalibration, from the Islamic Revolution of 1979 to the attrition of the Iran-Iraq War. The ...

President Donald Trump promised that help was “on the way”. Picture: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Now, with unconfirmed death toll estimates ranging from 6,000 up to 30,000, two United States Navy ...

And could a sudden deployment of major US naval and air force assets indicate a strike on Iran is imminent?

Welcome back to the MBN Agenda, our look at the events driving the news in the Middle East in the week to come. Kurdish power in Syria is collapsing. ISIS prisoners are on the move. Iraq edges ...

As Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and President Aoun present an increasingly united front, Qassem is forced to focus on quite ...

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

Recent weeks have seen a political and military earthquake in Syria. Nearly 14 months after driving Bashar al Assad ...

Investigative reporting suggests that Iran may have used at least one warhead in the attacks that incorporated radiological ...

At a time when the United States is cornering Iran and the world is discussing whether Iran will be struck any day now, the European Union’s designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization was ...

The historian Adam Tooze discusses Davos, China and the fading of an old world order. This is an edited transcript of “The ...

PROFESSOR DASARATH CHETTY traces the unbroken line of American expansionism from 19th century land grabs through economic ...