U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is contemplating forming a military coalition with several Arab allies to combat their mutual enemy, state sponsor of terrorism Iran, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
A U.S. Navy captain recently shared new details with Breitbart News of an incident in January when his warship was harassed by four Iranian fast-attack craft in the Arabian Gulf.
The Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan, came out strongly in defense of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration Wednesday, the first such supportive comment from a Gulf Arab state.
US President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations is not anti-Islam, the United Arab Emirates foreign minister said on Wednesday.
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have opened an investigation into a visit by Kim Kardashian to a Dubai government children’s charity this month and suggested it undermined local values, a state-owned newspaper reported.
The private ownership of wild animals has been outlawed in the United Arab Emirates, where keeping exotic creatures as pets is a status symbol for some, reports said Wednesday.
Contents: Mahmoud Abbas, 81, reelected leader of Fatah/Palestinian Authority; Hopes again grow for Gaza-West Bank unity government
The family of a British woman arrested in Dubai for reporting her own rape has launched an online appeal, urging the public and the UK government to help negotiate her release.
A British tourist allegedly raped by two men in Dubai is facing jail after authorities accused her sex outside of marriage.
In Cairo, capital of the most populous Arab country, the US election is met with self-absorbed indifference or loathing for one, and sometimes both, candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador the UN, made a clandestine visit to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to take part in a UN development conference, Channel 2 reported on Thursday.
The Middle East has few bright spots these days, but one is the budding rapprochement between Israel and its Sunni Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, thanks to shared threats from Iran and Islamic State.
On Saturday, a rocket attack purportedly launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen struck a ship operated by the United Arab Emirates military, nearly sinking it. The U.S. Navy has now dispatched three warships to the southern coast of Yemen, raising the possibility that America could be drawn more deeply into the Yemeni civil war — and, by extension, the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched an airstrike against an aid ship owned by a company from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a member of the largely Sunni Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and part of the Saudi-led Arab alliance fighting the Shiite rebels, according to the state-controlled Emirates News Agency (WAM).
WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressional leaders from both parties expressed buyer’s remorse soon after the House and Senate overwhelmingly voted to overturn President Barack Obama’s veto of a contentious new law that allows the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for any role it may have played in the 2001 attacks.
The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates accused Iran on Saturday of playing “the greatest role in causing tension and instability” in the Middle East.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has slammed the “catastrophe” Brexit vote and “pushing back against globalisation” whilst praising an autocratic sharia state a role model for the rest of the world.
The Obama administration on Monday evening announced the transfer of 12 Yemenis and three Afghans from the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), dramatically bringing down the overall prison population to 61.
Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were sent to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest release of detainees during the Obama administration, the Pentagon announced Monday.
The United Arab Emirates summoned on Sunday a senior US diplomat to protest the “abusive treatment” of a UAE citizen as it advised citizens to avoid wearing national attire abroad.
Contents: UAE backs out of Saudi coalition in Yemen, saying ‘War is over’; Saudi Arabia is condemned for Yemen’s humanitarian disaster
The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced that it will be withdrawing active combat troops from Yemen, where the UAE has been fighting alongside Saudi Arabia in defense of the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
A video in which a woman from the United Arab Emirates praises her servant’s household abilities while appearing to treat the worker as an object has gone viral on Arab social media.
Contents: A disastrous year in relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia; Iran bans Iranians from attending the Hajj in 2016; Far left anti-government riots spread across France
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members and the United States have reached an agreement to prevent the shipment of Iranian weapons to Yemen, according to Abdullatif al-Zayani, the alliance’s secretary general.
During a visit to the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter called on the Gulf oil states to help Iraq battle the Islamic State and rebuild from the devastation left by ISIS.
Scholars at the Department of Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities in Dubai have issued a fatwa, or religious edict, declaring that using a neighbor’s WiFi connection without consent is not “proper Islamic conduct.”
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested a 25-year-old American woman on February 23 for “insulting” the state, though she claims “nothing happened.”
A troubling report from the UK Independent says that al-Qaeda has acquired sophisticated surface-to-air missiles from battlefields like Syria, Iraq, and Yemen and used a battle-tested Russian missile system to shoot down a French-made Mirage fighter jet, flown by the United Arab Emirates over Yemen.
Two warplanes from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fatally crashed while fighting the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, the New York Times reports, citing Saudi Arabia’s official news agency.
Contents: Arab League brands Lebanon’s Hezbollah a terrorist organization; U.S. blames Iran for cyber attack on a New York dam
Contents: Deep Saudi-Lebanon crisis widens the Mideast’s sectarian fault line; Hackers steal thousands of employee W-2 tax documents from Seagate Inc.; Bangladesh bank says hackers stole $100M from its New York Fed account
Contents: India about to deploy its first nuclear-armed submarine, in challenge to China; China’s military takes control of another Philippines fishing ground; Mideast Sunni-Shia split grows as GCC says Hezbollah is terrorist organization
Contents: Turkey doubles down on shelling Kurds in Syria; Qatar says it will join Saudi Arabia, UAE sending troops to Syria; John Kerry suggests that al-Assad and the Russians are delusional
Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash announced that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is willing to deploy ground troops to Syria to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), as part of the U.S.-led coalition.
Contents: Plans continue for Western military deployment into Libya; UAE says it’s ready to supply ground troops to fight ISIS in Syria
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack aimed at the presidential residence in Aden, Yemen, on Thursday. Reports say that up to 11 people were killed in the blast and at least 20 wounded.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has accused an Emirati man, who claims to be the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in the UAE, of plotting an assassination and bomb attacks on various targets inside the Gulf nation, including Abu Dhabi’s Formula 1 circuit, according to multiple news outlets.
Contents: Reader comments on xenophobic ‘Soldiers of Odin’ in Finland; European Union said to be collapsing over migrant crisis; Mideast borders set by Sykes-Picot and Balfour declaration under fire; The 2016 market meltdown raises fears of financial crisis
Contents: Mideast trends: Sunni-Shia countries align along predicted lines; Saudi Arabia faces increased social unrest with sudden austerity budget
