Tuesday, January 6, 2026 Happy New Year! And welcome back to MBN Agenda, our weekly look at the stories driving the news in the region and Washington. Brought to you by the Middle East ...

The current ability of Hamas to continue to impose its will on the majority of the population of Gaza is solely the result of ...

Export arrangements entered with nations ranging from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, highlighting both geographic reach & growing ...

What keeps the Middle East awake at night in 2026? To find out, we reached out to two dozen of the leading voices in regional statecraft—ranging from a former Israeli Prime Minister to veteran ...

This article explores the difficult, entangled, high risk and yet, hopeful journey of publishing on the continent, a journey ...

In Mexico, we can consider that Trump is announcing military operations similar to those he is carrying out against Venezuela. Since the start of his second term, the US president has been threatening ...

A word of the year is a single word you choose that can guide you through your year and be a north star to come back to when ...

If you don't want to go too literal and call your baby January or Jan, these names are perfect for the first month of the ...

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, ...

If 2025 belonged to the women of pop, then 2026 will be the year their names take centre stage. The influence of ...

During a difficult time, there are go-to one-liners that can be comforting and elucidating like “everything happens for a ...