Al Arabiya media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Al Arabiya one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 277 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Al Arabiya biased?
The rating organisations do not give Al Arabiya one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Al Arabiya left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Al Arabiya one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Al Arabiya reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Al Arabiya are Ad Fontes Media: Very low factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Al Arabiya has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Al Arabiya’s own report linked underneath.
President Xi Jinping told Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said that the Middle East should not be a battleground for great-power rivalry. Xi expressed China's willingness to enhance coordination with Arab and GCC countries for regional peace and stability.
Al Arabiya reported it asChina’s Xi says Middle East should not become battleground for great power rivalry (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Washington evaluated potential renewed military action against Iran. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated diplomatic talks with Iran have continued without interruption.
Al Arabiya reported it asNetanyahu reportedly urges Trump to attack Iran after US midterms (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has claimed the Trump administration could launch a nuclear strike on Iran within days. He alleged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressuring President Trump to attack an underground facility known as 'Pickax Mountain'. Carlson did not provide evidence for his claims.
Al Arabiya reported it asNetanyahu reportedly urges Trump to attack Iran after US midterms (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Yemen's Houthis reportedly launched missile attacks on Aden airport and the presidential palace. Residents heard explosions in the city, which serves as the temporary seat of the internationally recognized government.
Al Arabiya reported it asHouthis target Saudi Arabia’s Medina and Yemen’s presidential palace in Aden (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that Tehran is in close contact with mediators regarding a seven-day plan to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. US President Donald Trump denied directing peace talks but approved outreach for medical supplies.
Al Arabiya reported it asHeadline Unavailable (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
US Vice President JD Vance sent a letter to Iran's top security official, Mohsen Rezaei, in an effort to restart peace negotiations and prevent potential US bombings. President Donald Trump has denied directing Vance to initiate these talks.
Al Arabiya reported it asUS VP Vance contacted top Iran security official: Report (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
A vessel caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil trade route. Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed three oil tankers hit mines, but the status of the crew and the cause of the fires remain unclear.
Al Arabiya reported it asShip on fire in Strait of Hormuz: Maritime agency (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that Tehran is in close contact with mediators regarding a seven-day plan to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. US President Donald Trump denied directing peace talks but approved outreach for medical supplies.
Al Arabiya reported it asIran in contact with mediators over seven-day peace plan, Araghchi says (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Russia has indicated readiness to resume trilateral talks with Ukraine and the United States after November 4. Presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov described the potential next round as exploratory, suggesting initial meetings might not yield significant outcomes.
Al Arabiya reported it asUkraine, Russia, US peace negotiators to meet between ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov said Europe should be included in peace talks regarding Ukraine, stating the US has failed to pressure Kyiv into an agreement. Russia is ready to resume trilateral talks after November 4, while Ukrainian negotiators agreed to a technical meeting in early November.
Al Arabiya reported it asUkraine, Russia, US peace negotiators to meet between ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Moscow for talks, with assurances of safety. Ukrainian officials confirmed Zelensky's readiness for a meeting and a partial ceasefire, though they noted Russia's continued attacks.
Al Arabiya reported it asNorway's prime minister, Finland's president in phone call ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Russia launched a ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv on October 26-27, 2026. The strikes resulted in at least one death and multiple injuries, damaging key infrastructure like the Southern Bridge and subway lines.
Al Arabiya reported it asRussia strikes major Kyiv road bridge in what Zelenskyy ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
The Russian Defence Ministry announced that its drones struck a workshop producing unmanned boats in the Chernomorsk port and hit several vessels, a cargo ship bound for Chornomorsk, a dry cargo ship carrying goods for the United States, and a supply ship heading to Odessa. No casualties were reported.
Al Arabiya reported it asRussia strikes major Kyiv road bridge in what Zelenskyy ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Ukraine has requested five European partners provide 10% of their existing interceptor missile stocks for Patriot and IRIS-T air defence systems. Defence Minister Yevhen Khmara proposed an exchange for future deliveries, while also highlighting the urgent need for MANPADS.
Al Arabiya reported it asRussia strikes major Kyiv road bridge in what Zelenskyy ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Ukrainian drones struck the Samara Linear Production and Dispatch Station in Russia's Samara region on the night of 2 November 2026. The facility, described as Europe's largest oil tank farm, has been targeted multiple times previously.
Al Arabiya reported it asRussia strikes major Kyiv road bridge in what Zelenskyy ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
France deployed thousands of police officers to manage protests over living costs and school funding. A planned march in Paris was rerouted to the city's southeastern edge, with authorities citing concerns over potential unrest and damage to businesses.
Al Arabiya reported it asFrance’s Macron promises ‘strong measures’ to assuage protests (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
US CENTCOM chief Admiral Brad Cooper visited the Strait of Hormuz, asserting that key transit routes are clear of Iranian mines. The command also announced support for over 3,000 commercial vessel transits and 1.5 billion barrels of oil exports in six months.
Al Arabiya reported it asCENTCOM chief visits Hormuz Strait, says US helped export 1.5 billion ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran and its allies against attempting to disrupt Israel's parliamentary elections on October 27. He stated that Israel's military would respond with disproportionate force to any interference.
Al Arabiya reported it asNetanyahu warns Iran may try to disrupt Israeli elections ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Weekend unrest in France left roughly 3,000 shops damaged and could generate claims exceeding €13 billion. Authorities launched a digital tool to identify looters, and insurers prepared to assist, though coverage may be limited.
Al Arabiya reported it asSecurity high as France braces for new protests (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
The US Department of Defense has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to national security. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that 80 new propaganda cells were identified across 30 universities and have been dismantled.
Al Arabiya reported it asChina-funded Confucius Institutes deemed US national security threat ... (opens Al Arabiya in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Low factuality
Who owns it
- MBC GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia
- Official site
- alarabiya.net
- Seen publishing on
- english.alarabiya.net, alarabiya.net
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 277
- Reports listed
- 290
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
290 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 37 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Al Arabiya ran the story anyway.
Across the 277 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Al Arabiya’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 25 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 2 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 November 2026. Ratings pulled 3 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Al Arabiya, also publishing from Saudi Arabia, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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