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Walid Jumblatt says Arab leaders must wake up to Israeli expansionism

Veteran Lebanese Druze leader fears that destruction of Gaza heralds plans for a 'greater Israel', and discusses Hezbollah's disarmament and Syria's new leader

How the Druze community has self-managed its economy in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Israel's aggression in Syria advances a century-long plan to co-opt the Druze

Israel's war on Gaza

Mercenary firm set to oversee Gaza aid for Israel goes on LinkedIn hiring spree

As the world looks back on 1948, Nakba descendants look to return to Palestine

Smog of war: Why Indian media misled its public in the conflict with Pakistan

The good Arab immigrant: Ramy Youssef hits his stride with #1 Happy Family USA

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Israel's war on Gaza

Live: Israeli air strikes kill at least 52 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn

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US: UCLA student hospitalised during hunger strike for Gaza

Syria after Assad

US not ruling out reopening embassy in Syria

UK summons Israeli ambassador and suspends free trade agreement talks with Israel

Mother of Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah resumes full hunger strike

Israel's war on Gaza

Israeli opposition leader condemns his country for 'killing babies as a hobby'

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel kills over 70 as healthcare crisis deepens in Gaza

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Opinion

US-Israel relations

Trump's Middle East moves revive the question of who's in charge

Sami Al-Arian

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza is an open graveyard, yet the West still debates whether Israel has gone 'too far'

Ahmed Najar

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza genocide: How Arab regimes became the enemy within

Israel's war on Gaza

How the Gaza war turned into Israel's Vietnam

Mehmet Rakipoglu

Israel's war on Gaza

The Aqqad family was erased in Gaza. But Ibrahim's ink still speaks

Ghada Ageel

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel has already lost the Gaza war. It just doesn't know it yet

David Hearst

Gaza extermination

Why the wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack

Jonathan Cook

The Nakba: Jaffa's erasure is a warning to Gaza - but history is yet to be written

How Starmer careened from honourable left to racist right

Peter Oborne

How Trump's grand design for the Middle East could leave Israel in the dust

Marco Carnelos

Gaza genocide: How Israel's healthcare system became an instrument of state violence

Ghada Majadli

The West made us pay for its guilt - and now watches as Israel delivers the final Nakba

Ghada Karmi

As Trump basks in Gulf Arab applause, Israel massacres children in Gaza

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Trump isn't fighting antisemitism. He's targeting critics of Israel

Antony Loewenstein

International law

How China is quietly aiding Israel's settlement enterprise

Razan Shawamreh

Trump has unmasked the tyranny at the heart of US democracy

Hamid Dabashi

Israel's war on Gaza

How Trump and Netanyahu's aggressive vision could set the world ablaze

Hesham Gaafar

Syria after Assad

The long path to recovery in northeastern Syria

Chris Doyle

PKK disarmament: What does it mean for Baghdad and Erbil?

Mehmet Alaca

India's attack on Pakistan is a declaration of Israel-style expansionism

Azad Essa

My message to the Palestinians: We have not forgotten you, but we have failed you

Shockat Adam

Why the Israeli left's 'peace summit' is in denial about the Gaza genocide

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Israel's war on Gaza

I once lived next to a Holocaust survivor. What would he make of Israel's starvation of Gaza?

Lubna Masarwa

Israel's war on Gaza

Shamefully, the UK has denied Gaza's injured children treatment in Britain. Why?

Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan

Trending

Social media erupts after Indian media falsely claims destruction of Pakistan's Karachi Port

In Case You Missed It

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The Nakba explained in five maps and charts

Exclusive: UK considered Palestine recognition in 2014 if Israel built settlements now being planned

Exclusive: Jordan profited up to $400,000 per Gaza aid airdrop, sources say

Indian air strikes in Pakistan: Tactical success or symbolic gesture?

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel's controversial aid plan for Gaza revealed in new document

Israel's war on Gaza

What is 'Gideon's Chariots', Israel's latest plan for Gaza?

Israel's war on Gaza

Holocaust survivors against Gaza war say ‘never again for anyone’

Israeli settlers kidnap two Palestinian children, tie them to a tree

Exclusive: British MPs confronted by Israeli settlers during visit to Palestinian territories

Syria after Assad

‘Assad knew everything’: Syrian gravedigger reveals horrors in first-ever unmasked interview

US lobbied Turkey and Israel to hold military deconfliction talks on Syria

The Big Story

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza genocide: How Arab regimes became the enemy within

The Nakba: Jaffa's erasure is a warning to Gaza - but history is yet to be written

A dangerous mind: The legacy of Bijan Jazani and Iran's 1975 Evin executions

Kenize Mourad: The Ottoman princess boycotted in France for supporting Palestine

Ten years after the air strikes began, Yemenis hope for an end to 'journey of suffering'

How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region

Revealed: How the UK continued selling arms after Yemen massacre

Are Arab dissidents facing a new wave of repression?

Israel's war on Gaza

Eyes were wet with tears, children cried. The long walk home to northern Gaza

What made Benjamin Netanyahu?

Syria after Assad

They won the war. Can Syria's new leaders rebuild the country?

Israel's war on Gaza

In search of a coherent Labour policy on Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza

How Israel’s dehumanisation of Palestinians stokes the slaughter in Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza

'This isn't me': Israeli war and healthcare collapse leave Gaza child unrecognisable

Israel's war on Gaza

‘Death of a generation’: Gaza infants battle starvation under deepening Israeli siege

Israel's war on Gaza

Palestinian girl ‘gasping for air’ as mother uses makeshift device to save her

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza's Christians mourn 'true loss' of Pope Francis but hail his enduring solidarity

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza mourns beloved photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed by Israel

Israel's war on Gaza

Hamas rejects truce proposal that calls on Palestinian groups to 'surrender'

Syria after Assad

PKK disbands after 40-year-long conflict with Turkey

Ahmed al-Sharaa confirms Syria and Israel in indirect deconfliction talks

Syria after Assad

Syria’s Druze fearful after deadly attacks on Damascus suburbs

Syria after Assad

Israel bombs Syria hours after controversial Israeli Druze leader appeals for 'action'

Syria after Assad

US not ruling out reopening embassy in Syria

Syria after Assad

How did sanctions affect life in Syria, and what happens next?

Syria after Assad

Syrian official appears to hint at normalisation with Israel

Israel's war on Lebanon

Palestinian factions in Lebanon wary of Abbas disarmament plan

Israel's war on Lebanon

Najwa refused to leave her village so Israeli troops shot her in her home

Hezbollah at a crossroads as Lebanon pushes for arms monopoly

Israel's war on Lebanon

'My intestines were outside my body': Israel's deliberate targeting of Lebanese healthcare workers

Israel's war on Lebanon

Hezbollah withdraws from majority of military sites in southern Lebanon

Israel's war on Lebanon

Israeli dawn strike on Beirut suburb kills four

Israel's war on Lebanon

Israeli air strikes target southern Beirut

Israel's war on Lebanon

Israeli settlers storm purported rabbi's shrine in Lebanon

Sudan Crisis

UAE sent Chinese weapons to Sudan despite embargo

Sudan cuts ties with UAE as Port Sudan reels from drone strikes

ICJ dismisses Sudan's case accusing UAE of complicity in genocide

London conference on Sudan a 'diplomatic flop' as RSF declares parallel government

UN report cites 'multiple flights' from UAE to Chad, possibly arms transfers to Sudan's RSF

Sudan’s el-Fasher pleads for help as RSF slaughters its way to the city

RSF fighters commit widespread sexual violence in Sudan, say survivors

International law

Full text of ICJ speech accusing UAE of complicity in genocide in Sudan

Sudan’s army and RSF militia enter bone-breaking phase in Nyala and Port Sudan

Sudan's shadow war: Drone strikes reveal escalating tensions between UAE and Turkey

UK police handed dossier of war crimes committed by RSF in Sudan

Activists call for UAE boycott over its backing for the RSF in Sudan

Explainers

Persian or Arabian Gulf? A brief history

Israel's war on Gaza

How Israel’s war on Gaza has cut Palestinian life expectancy

Israel's war on Gaza

How Unrwa school closures could damage the education of hundreds of Palestinian children

Israel's war on Gaza

What is the Palestinian Authority and why does it matter?

The losers and worse losers of Trump’s tariffs on the Middle East and North Africa

Israel's war on Gaza

The 'Morag axis': What we know about Israel's latest plan to divide Gaza

Diego Garcia: The Indian Ocean base the US can use to target Iran

International law

Israel's war on Gaza: What are crimes against humanity?

Discover

The good Arab immigrant: Ramy Youssef hits his stride with #1 Happy Family USA

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

'The Encampments' vs 'October 8': A battle of narratives on Palestine plays out in cinema

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha amongst 2025 Pulitzer winners

We are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth

Trolling Israeli soldiers and being shoved by a settler leader: Louis Theroux's 'The Settlers'

The Encampments: A portrait of a protest for Palestine that moved America

Israel's war on Gaza

ITV documentary 'Our Land' lays bare the fanaticism of the Israeli settler movement

A Saudi-Egyptian rivalry? What the 2025 Ramadan season taught us about the Arab TV landscape

Gaza genocide: How the hell did this happen, asks Pankaj Mishra

Eid al-Fitr 2025: When is it and everything else you need to know

Berlinale 2025: 'Khartoum' stands out amidst tepid Middle Eastern offerings

American fascism: Sue Coe's new book fails to realise Trump is not an aberration

Who was Ibn Arabi? The medieval Sufi master of Damascus

Progressive except for Palestine: Berlinale 2025 and the politics of omission

Israel's war on Gaza

'No Other Land': Israeli-Palestinian film wins Oscar for best documentary feature

'No Other Land' captures the Palestinian spirit but falls short on Israeli society

Ramadan 2025: When does it start and everything else you need to know

How a murky security crackdown in Egypt snuffed out South Sinai's hiking economy

'I'm not German, I'm not Syrian. I’m in between': Shkoon on uniting Arab and western musical culture

The Big Picture Podcast

The Big Picture Podcast

An American surgeon in Gaza describes what he saw

The Big Picture Podcast

Netanyahu commits 'a bloodbath in Gaza' to save himself

The Big Picture Podcast

Hamas expects another war with Israel - this time in the West Bank

The Big Picture Podcast

Netanyahu’s total victory narrative has collapsed

The Big Picture Podcast

The Muslim senator who took on Australia’s government

The Big Picture Podcast

Palestinians must audition for 'our own humanity'

The Big Picture Podcast

The Syrian dream rises from the ashes of Assad’s nightmare

The Big Picture Podcast

Trump’s intrusive demons and Israel’s ‘enlightened cause’

The Big Picture Podcast

Americans 'socialised' into capitalism, racism and Zionism

The Big Picture Podcast

Jill Stein: 'The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves'

The Big Picture Podcast

Ilan Pappe on the birth of Israel and the death of Zionism

The Big Picture Podcast

'He was sent by God': Talking to Trump supporters about Israel

Real Talk

Pakistani influencer on India, partition, and the language of ‘dehumanisation’ | Bilal Hassan

I called out Microsoft’s complicity in Gaza. They fired me | Vaniya Agrawal

How does western media ‘whitewash’ genocide? | Assal Rad

Cherien Dabis on 'Mo' and fighting the 'villain narrative' | Real Talk

White supremacy & complicity: How the West enables Israel’s war on Gaza | Pankaj Mishra

Inside Trump's crackdown on Columbia University | Bruce Robbins

This Jewish academic shared an anti-Zionist post. She was then fired | Maura Finkelstein

How Jewish scholars are attacked in America for calling out Gaza genocide | Raz Segal

Unapologetic

Unapologetic Podcast

How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes

Unapologetic Podcast

What exactly happened in Syria’s 13-year civil war

Unapologetic Podcast

Azzam Tamimi on Yahya Sinwar's legacy, Israel and the likelihood of a regional war

Unapologetic Podcast

Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests

Unapologetic Podcast

Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system

Unapologetic Podcast

Cornel West on his life and what inspired him to run for US president

Unapologetic Podcast

Andrew Feinstein: The anti-apartheid activist trying to stop Keir Starmer

Unapologetic Podcast

Mads Gilbert: The doctor who's witnessed Israel's wars against Palestinians since 1982

MEE Opinion Videos

Syria after Assad

On Israel's fatal illusion in Syria

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Gaza Under Attack

Why Hamas will not surrender

David Hearst

Why did UK media ignore Lammy's secret meeting with Israeli foreign minister?

Peter Oborne

Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza medic killings: How a voice from beyond the grave destroyed Israel's lie

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Red Crescent massacre: Palestinians are betrayed in a world ruled by outlaws

Joe Gill

Trump's Israel-Palestine plan

Witkoff and Trump’s Gaza dream has one thing missing: Palestinians

David Hearst

Israel's war on Gaza

Palestinian children are the future. That’s why Israel is killing them

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel’s Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining western claims of moral leadership

David Hearst

In Trump's new order, anyone can become Palestinian

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Why Trump's team is negotiating with Hamas

Chris Doyle

Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced

David Hearst

Trump's Israel-Palestine plan

Trump’s Gaza takeover plan is dead. Will he let Israel drag him into endless war?

Sami Al-Arian

How Netanyahu's alliance with the far right could be Israel's undoing

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Cairo summit: US-Israeli rejection of the Arab Gaza plan is a moment of truth

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Syria after Assad

Syria must put an end to Israel's incursions - and fast

David Hearst

Trump's Israel-Palestine plan

Gaza has survived for thousands of years. It cannot be erased by Trump and Israel

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza transfer plan: The banality of ethnic cleansing

Ahmad Tibi

From South Africa to Palestine: Trump's war to defend apartheid

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Gaza Under Attack

How Trump and Netanyahu forced Mohammed bin Salman to draw a line on Palestine

David Hearst