From touring Assad's homes to the Abandon Harris campaign, here is a selection of stories and videos that MEE staff felt mattered ...

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December ...

Of course, Aliyah is the only answer, but while the Rabbis I met are aware of the instability of continued Diaspora existence ...

Last week, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmail Baghaei told reporters that claims that Syria owes Iran $50bn are “exaggerated”, but added that any existing debts will be transferred to ...

The fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad earlier in December has set millions of Yemenis thinking about what lies in store ...

Donald Trump's US presidential election win, the fall of Bashar Al Assad in Syria, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict were among ...

Some events in the world cause confusion among people who know little about politics, but who have their own view on it. For ...

The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Christmas were nowhere ...

We haven’t really seen this kind of machinery of death, or anything like it, since the Nazis,” one US-based investigator said ...

Political shifts in United States, Syria and war theatre in Middle East made international headlines throughout the year ...

The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least eight people were killed by Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank. The ministry said three of the dead were killed by ...