Mena Today

Major shipping companies are devising strategies for a return to the Suez Canal after more than two years of disruptions due to security risks in the Red Sea.

Every time Iran enters survival mode, diplomacy becomes a tool of the regime, not a constraint on it. Talks buy time. Time reduces pressure. Pressure fades , and repression resumes. This is not miscalculation; it is strategy

Three Gulf states have mounted an eleventh-hour diplomatic offensive to prevent a potential US military strike on Iran, despite the Islamic Republic's decades-long record of deception and regional destabilization.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had been told that killings in Iran’s crackdown on protests were easing and that he believed there was no current plan for large-scale executions, adopting a wait‑and‑see posture after earlier threatening intervention.

In a stunning display of moral agility rivaling that of a sloth on sedatives, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has finally -FINALLY- expressed his profound "shock" at violence in Iran. Mark your calendars, folks: it only took 10 days of corpses piling up in the streets.

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze have reinforced their commitment to expanding bilateral cooperation, with a particular focus on investment, sustainability, and economic integration.

Riyadh has thrown its weight behind Washington's move to blacklist Muslim Brotherhood branches across the Middle East, marking a significant escalation in the regional crackdown on the Islamist movement.

Dozens of Iranians crossed the border into Turkey on Wednesday, as authorities in Iran crack down on one of the biggest ever waves of protest against the Islamic Republic's clerical rule.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face voters this year for the first time since the 2023 Hamas attack shook his security credentials, with the outcome of the latest crisis in Iran likely to be key to salvaging his legacy, analysts say. 

Armed Kurdish separatist groups sought to cross the border into Iran from Iraq, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a sign of foreign entities potentially seeking to take advantage of instability after days of crackdown on protests against Tehran.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected on Wednesday to push ahead with his phased plan for Gaza's future by announcing the administration that will run the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, four Palestinian sources said.