Israel has no intention of staying permanently in southern Lebanon, but any withdrawal will depend on whether the Lebanese army can keep Hezbollah from returning to the border, Israel’s U.N.

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 ...

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, ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Starting today, the Monday briefings will be looking ahead at the coming week. I’ll be highlighting the major potential flashpoints and what to watch for.

After years of hesitation, Israel on Sunday formally recognized the Armenian genocide, likely ushering in more contentious chapter in its already sharply deteriorating relationship ...

In exile in Russia, Bashar al-Assad has offered little clue about how he understands his fall: as defeat, betrayal, or the price of a rule built on fear. Bashar al-Assad’s exile reportedly ...

It did not take long for the road to Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport to return to being a central showcase for the political confrontation between Hezbollah and the Lebanese ...

For Arab Gulf countries, the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran began with promises to topple a regime they had considered an enemy for decades. Three months later, the battered Shia clerical regime ...

Israel and Lebanon unveil US-brokered dealIsrael agrees to withdraw from two ‘pilot zones’ in Lebanon Just two days after Israel’s ambassador in Washington Yechiel Leiter ...

Oil prices fell to pre-war levels. The Strait of Hormuz maritime traffic is carefully ramping up. Secretary of State Marco Rubio returned from his Gulf tour of reassuring wary Arab allies. There’s ...

As relations between Baghdad and Washington enter what many officials describe as a pivotal phase, the Iraqi government has selected an unconventional figure for one of its most important ...

When I first heard President Trump’s suggestion that Syria might help solve Lebanon’s Hezbollah problem, my mind didn’t go to diplomacy or strategy. It went elsewhere. It went back to the ...