Middle East Monitor media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Middle East Monitor one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Middle East Monitor biased?
The rating organisations do not give Middle East Monitor one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Middle East Monitor left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Middle East Monitor one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Middle East Monitor reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Middle East Monitor are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Middle East Monitor has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Middle East Monitor’s own report linked underneath.
Donald Trump stated that growing dislike of Israel among American voters, the war with Iran, and rising gasoline prices were key factors in the Republican Party's midterm election losses. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi suggested Trump was confused about the reasons for American discontent with Israel.
Middle East Monitor reported it as‘America is not lost’: Lapid banks on pro-Israel Democrats as AIPAC celebrates 234 wins (opens Middle East Monitor 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.
Middle East Monitor reported it asIranian foreign minister says Tehran in talks with mediators to implement 7-day plan with US (opens Middle East Monitor in a new tab)
Donald Trump stated he does not believe reports that Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by Egypt or the UAE about the October 7 Hamas attack. He also refused to endorse Netanyahu for another term, saying he is not involved in politics.
Middle East Monitor reported it asTrump declines to endorse Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections (opens Middle East Monitor in a new tab)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Cairo on Sunday. The leaders discussed the Iran crisis, the Gaza ceasefire, and regional security. Sisi reiterated Egypt's support for Sudan and Somalia.
Middle East Monitor reported it asEgyptian president meets CIA chief, calls for agreement to resolve Iranian crisis (opens Middle East Monitor in a new tab)
The US military's Central Command stated that over one billion barrels of oil and more than 2,000 commercial vessels have transited the Strait of Hormuz in recent months. CENTCOM also reported that Iran has exported no oil during this period.
Middle East Monitor reported it asUS military says over 1B barrels of oil shipped through Strait of Hormuz under US blockade (opens Middle East Monitor in a new tab)
A Syrian Airlines flight from Damascus landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on 16 August 2026, marking the first passenger service between the two cities in over 18 months. The route, suspended in December 2024, resumed with a return flight later the same day. Outlets diverged on whether the resumption signals political normalisation or commercial demand.
Middle East Monitor reported it as1st Syrian Airlines passenger flight in over 1.5 years arrives in Moscow (opens Middle East Monitor in a new tab)
The UAE Cybersecurity Council announced it had detected and thwarted coordinated cyberattacks targeting the country’s aviation, energy and education sectors. The council did not identify the attackers or specify when the attempts occurred, but said no disruption to critical services resulted.
Middle East Monitor reported it asUAE says it foiled cyberattacks targeting vital sectors (opens Middle East Monitor 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- QatarGovernmentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- middleeastmonitor.com
- Seen publishing on
- middleeastmonitor.com
- 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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 4
- First seen
- 8 August 2026
3 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 4 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 4 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Middle East Monitor ran the story anyway.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Middle East Monitor: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 November 2026. Ratings pulled 11 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Middle East Monitor, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Middle East Monitor publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.