The earthquake offers a chance to show the world that the West can rebuild as well as destroy. But this is the last sentiment in the minds of Fortress Europe today

Starmer is set on making Britain complicit in what could easily become a genocide. This is the first time Britain has been complicit in a direct Israeli military action since the Suez Crisis in 1956

Election campaigning? Undermining Hamas and Iran? Or neither? The unprovoked bombing campaign makes little to no sense

The man feted on social media as Egypt’s ‘martyr president’ will enjoy a status in death that he never achieved in life

The journalist thought that, wherever he was, it was his duty to speak out and call for reform in Saudi Arabia. He paid with his life

Tel Aviv is coming up against myriad obstacles, from the loss of western public opinion to the nervousness of its key backers

False accusations by yesterday's spooks against Milne and Corbyn are a direct attempt to stop a popular and democratically elected leader from becoming prime minister

European leaders are off to Sharm el Sheikh, where they will continue to endorse the worst dictator Egypt has seen in modern times

Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz returns to Riyadh with UK and US security guarantees and a brief to cut the crown prince down to size

Western liberal thinkers have failed to recognise the strength of Turkish democracy, because it does not deliver their desired results

MEE reporter describes fleeing building in Gaza just an hour before it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike

The West's indifference to the Rabaa massacre emboldened Sisi's brutal authoritarianism. Only when he faces international justice can Egypt start to heal and rebuild

Munich meeting between Salah Gosh and Yossi Cohen took place with Saudi Arabia and allies seeking to install 'their man' in power in Khartoum, army source tells MEE

Funded by a government with bottomless pockets, this campaign has swayed state policies, destroyed reputations and bankrupted legitimate businesses

Saudi Arabia and UAE bit off more than they can chew once they took on Qatar, a country with vast wealth and powerful allies

MEE reporter describes fleeing building in Gaza just an hour before it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike

The treatment of Salman al-Odah, Awad al-Qarni and Ali al-Omari, all facing charges of 'terrorism', has been condemned by rights groups

MEE photojournalist Mohammed al-Hajjar and family have been displaced by Israeli air strikes three times in a week. From a Gaza refugee camp, he describes the scenes

Starmer is set on making Britain complicit in what could easily become a genocide. This is the first time Britain has been complicit in a direct Israeli military action since the Suez Crisis in 1956

Ukraine's defiance in the face of Putin's aggression has been dubbed heroic, so why doesn't the Palestinian resistance get the same treatment?

Blair's lies led to an illegal war with hundreds of thousands of deaths and we give him our highest honour. Johnson lies about a party and will pay a heavy price. This is modern Britain

In killing Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi crown prince revealed his true place in the Arab world. He and other despots in the region are not sources of stability

The president is allying himself with those blockading the tiny country, but he's made attempts to secure Qatari investments in the past.

Sources say Qatari-mediated negotiations to release women and children fell through when Israel launched ground operations in Gaza

Restrictions on travel to Turkey, a popular destination for British tourists, remain in place despite lower reported rates of infection than Spain, Cyprus and Greece

For once the Jordanian king and Palestinian president have earned their position as Arab leaders

The world's leaders will have no choice but to acknowledge that, under their radar, a second South Africa-style apartheid state has been declared

Tel Aviv is coming up against myriad obstacles, from the loss of western public opinion to the nervousness of its key backers

Lack of condemnation from the US over Khan's politically motivated imprisonment only confirms Washington's long history of preferring dictators pliable to its interests

A senior Algerian source tells MEE that the coup has no perspective and that they are not willing to tolerate another totalitarian strong man running Tunisia

Keir Starmer's silence on Palestine and his treatment of his predecessor have set the Labour leader on a collision course with many within his own party

Israel has only two alternatives: to follow Ben Gvir and Smotrich in their quest to turn a war over land into a religious war, or discuss with the Palestinians how they can share the land as equals

Israel has not achieved any of its goals of destroying Hamas, emptying Gaza or reshaping the Middle East. So what happens next?

The deal presents the biggest opportunity to those who have the most to lose from it

Egyptian government's abject failure in responding to the Suez closure highlights the threat this regime poses to international trade and stability

Ameed Shahada, a journalist for Al Araby, was in the Jenin refugee camp when Israeli forces stormed the city, firing live bullets into homes. He describes what happened

The marriage between the Israeli government and European parties that demonise Muslims in the same way the far-right groups nurtured hatred for the Jews is no coincidence

The Tunisian president is steadily losing popularity, and the economy is tanking as no Arab country has come to his aid with the money he needs. So what will he do next?

In its current formulation, Israel knows only one direction: to deepen its domination over a people whose land it has stolen and continues to steal

The forthcoming battle will entail a series of massacres, but it will neither save Israel's hostages nor destroy Hamas

Only when Israel starts paying a real price, will it have second thoughts about its project to establish itself as the only state between the river and the sea

British diplomats will attend meetings at the new American mission despite boycotting its opening ceremony

The International Court of Justice will hear arguments next week on Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people

The relentless persecution of Assange was an obscene betrayal of the values the United States and Britain claim to champion

Leaked document compiled by Kais Saied’s top advisors urges the president to seize control of the country

Reem Sulaiman fell foul of Saud al-Qahtani and Riyadh's crackdown on dissent. She talks exclusively to MEE about her experience

Until now, the Emirati leader MBZ, whose schemes, money and military arms laid waste to several countries, has felt little to no constraint from his western allies

Israel has a strategic choice to make: either to continue as a security state or come to terms with the people it has expelled and dominates

The real gulf in British politics is not between Tory and Labour. It's between a hegemonic political class at Westminster, and a decent majority that supports an immediate ceasefire

Whatever domestic constituency he is appealing to, Trump could not, and would not, have made his announcement without regional backers

Proposed deals could allow sharing of data relating to political and religious beliefs, sex lives and trade union memberships but only when 'strictly necessary'

Yousef Otaiba ridicules Gulf ally in email exchange, betraying years of frustration at Riyadh old guard that coalesced into efforts to change it

Every time Mohammed bin Salman thought he had banished the murdered Saudi journalist's ghost, it has come back to haunt him

It's time to acknowledge that the demonisation and violence against Muslims has been a mainstay of India since independence

Criticism of Israel was once confined to the margins of the Jewish-American community. But now activists say dissent is 'bigger and louder' than ever before

Racist, genocidal chants by Israeli marchers at the weekend were buried in western news coverage, pointing to blatant double standards

Top Saudi intelligence official pleads for limited UK attacks against Iranian targets, source tells MEE

The contours of the new struggle have already been determined. It has Jerusalem at its geographical centre, and Palestinian citizens of Israel as its foot soldiers

Two of those who escaped with their families as their homes collapsed describe desperate aftermath in southern Turkey

A broken prime minister is still in occupation of Downing Street thanks to a billionaire class that has a stranglehold over the governing political party

The forthcoming battle will entail a series of massacres, but it will neither save Israel's hostages nor destroy Hamas

How Joe Biden's key advisers on security in the Middle East are linked to the UAE

Gaza City resident says he was one of the Palestinians seen stripped and bound after being detained by Israel

There can be no clearer demonstration of the hollowness of western values than in the persistent, cynical and criminal failure to bring Israel to book for its actions