Countries
The Region's Press, Country by Country
One page per country: the latest Readout items about it, its top officeholders from the MEF Government Graph and MEF's latest articles on it.
As of October 17, 2026, 8:38 a.m. ET. Readout items through the capture of October 17, 2026. Officeholders from the Government Graph file of October 16, 2026. MEF articles through October 13, 2026.
| Country | Readout items | Latest item | Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 265 | October 17, 2026 | Mojtaba Khamenei, Masoud Pezeshkian |
| Iraq | 15 | October 9, 2026 | Nizar Amidi, Ali al-Zaidi |
| Saudi Arabia | 83 | October 17, 2026 | Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Mohammed bin Salman |
| United Arab Emirates | 20 | October 7, 2026 | Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum |
| Qatar | 25 | October 15, 2026 | Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani |
| Kuwait | 4 | October 7, 2026 | Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah |
| Bahrain | 1 | September 20, 2026 | Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa |
| Oman | 10 | October 15, 2026 | Haitham bin Tarik, Theyazin bin Haitham |
| Yemen | 68 | October 17, 2026 | Rashad al-Alimi, Shaya Mohsen al-Zindani |
| Syria | 14 | October 16, 2026 | Ahmed al-Sharaa, Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani |
| Lebanon | 42 | October 17, 2026 | Joseph Aoun, Nawaf Salam |
| Jordan | 3 | September 29, 2026 | King Abdullah II, Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II |
| Israel | 146 | October 17, 2026 | Isaac Herzog, Benjamin Netanyahu |
| Palestinian Authority and Gaza | 78 | October 17, 2026 | Mahmoud Abbas, Mohammad Mustafa |
| Egypt | 12 | October 15, 2026 | Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Mostafa Madbouly |
| Turkey | 47 | October 16, 2026 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Cevdet Yılmaz |
| Libya | 0 | Mohamed al-Menfi, Abdulhamid Dbeibah | |
| United States | 208 | October 17, 2026 |