Three years later, the Oct. 7 war may have changed the region, but some of the biggest questions remain. Welcome back to the MBN Friday Briefing, our roundup of the best stories on our Arabic-language ...

Fatah says the timing is up for "national consensus" as logistical hurdles in Gaza and East Jerusalem and a Hamas alliance with a UAE-linked former Fatah chief cloud the Nov. 28 date.

Operation Economic Outcast hits tankers flying 12 flags as a US naval blockade squeezes Iran’s oil exports and talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz go on ...

Houthi attacks on airports in Yemen and Saudi Arabia are opening a new front in the conflict, threatening civilian air traffic and raising concerns over the safety of internationa ...

A World Bank, U.N. and EU assessment puts the cleanup cost above $1.7 billion, with unexploded ordnance, hazardous materials and human remains slowing the work ...

Iran certainly has the wind. A 2022 study in the journal Energies described the country as sitting in a wind belt, with an economic wind potential of about 18 gigawatts — dozens of times its current ...

Assessments inside Israel of the war's outcome diverge, while calls to uncover the causes of the Oct. 7 failure and determine who was responsible mount.

Khalil al-Hayya leads Hamas after Israel killed Haniyeh and Sinwar, but power is still split among the Shura Council, West Bank leaders and figures abroad ...

Retailers of food and other needs for residents of the bombed-out Palestinian enclave say Hamas authorities levy exorbitant fees and confiscate goods without explanation.

Gaza's full recovery is estimated to cost $71.4 billion. Nine months after Xi Jinping pledged $100 million to ease the crisis there, Beijing has not said how much of it has been spent.

Hezbollah is no longer the organization that went to war on Oct. 8, 2023, under the banner of “support for Gaza.” The Iranian-backed Lebanese political party and paramilitary ...

Gulf and Iraqi officials told MBN this week that Iran has sent messages to Saudi Arabia denying responsibility for an attack earlier this month on the kingdom’s East-West oil pipeline, while ...