Dear Colleagues, When I lived in Prague I traveled a lot for RFE/RL and used to see retired tennis star Martina Navratilova ...

The easiest stage has ended, and the hardest has begun in Iraq’s electoral process, which took place on Tuesday, as voters cast their ballots to elect a new 329-member parliament representing the ...

In his weekly program on Alhurra’s digital platforms, author and journalist Ibrahim Eissa tackles what he calls the phenomenon of “fatwa madness,” asking: How did religion shift from being a ...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Shar’a left Washington after three days of intensive meetings in the U.S. capital. Questions abound about whether his visit marked the beginning of a genuine openness ...

Lebanese officials have for so long said that Lebanon would be “the last to sign” a peace treaty with Israel. Even politicians opposed to Hezbollah used to repeat this mantra. In August 2006, ...

Lebanon’s future may now depend on one man’s balancing act. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is trying to hold together a country that’s falling apart without firing a shot. To Washington and ...

After long years of absence, major American oil and energy companies are returning to Iraq with contracts worth billions of dollars, covering fields that stretch from Basra in the south to Mosul ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Iranians have gotten used to having to wait – for bread, fuel, a car. Some would say they’ve been waiting for different leadership. This week’s theme is ...

Iraqi politicians should seize the opportunity to curtail Iran’s influence. Washington Can Help. Akeel Abbas, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, focuses on national and religious ...

Colleagues, I’m always in awe over what you do under exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our editorial team leans into ...

Welcome to the debut edition of MBN Agenda. Every Tuesday – before dawn in Washington, in the early afternoon in the Middle East – the four of us will provide our readers in the Arab world with an ...

من دون مفاجآت، توافقت نتائج الانتخابات التشريعية في العراق مع توقعات المراقبين. فاز إئتلاف رئيس الحكومة، محمد شياع السوداني، بالمركز الأول في بغداد ومحافظات جنوبية أخرى، لكن، على جري العادة، من ...