The UAE has been sharply rebuked by Human Rights Watch (HRW) over its treatment of eight Lebanese nationals who have been detained for more than a year without charge...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s forces in the city of Mukalla, southern Yemen, will continue to use part of the Al-Rayyan International Airport for military purposes. Al-Khaleej Online quoted...

Since July 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have closed their airspace to Qatar Airways and Qatari-owned airlines. They claim legitimacy for this by citing Article 1...

With Human Rights Watch releasing a statement on 21 March on behalf of Saudi women activists brought to court in Riyadh a week earlier, world attention remains focused, and...

A former adviser to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Abdul-Khaliq Abdullah, has called for the international community to “liberate” the Gaza Strip from Hamas, which he said was...

Jordan has rejected the Arab League’s request to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and label them “terrorist movements”, informed sources told the Shehab news agency yesterday. The sources...

The US ambassador to Yemen, Matthew Tueller, yesterday blamed the Houthi group for “reneging on its obligations” under the United Nations (UN)-led peace agreement over the country’s portal city...

An Israeli report said that Egypt has put forward a plan for a settlement between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, led by Hamas, which controls the...

The United Nations will hold a conference inside Libya in April to discuss elections as a way out of the country’s eight-year-long conflict, a UN envoy said on Wednesday,...

Qatar has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to intervene in a dispute over a $24 billion nuclear power plant which the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is...

Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf Bin Alawi remarked on the arrest of an Emirati spying cell in the country saying “these things happen between neighbours”. Bin Alawi was asked during...

US federal agents are investigating Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for the Republican party and President Donald Trump, over his relations to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and...

US Congressman Ilhan Omar has called on America to put human rights, justice, and peace at the centre of its foreign policy and cited examples in the Middle East...

During his most recent visit to Abu Dhabi, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt hailed the United Arab Emirates as a beacon of tolerance. Barely four months earlier, the tone...

Gulf countries have supported Egypt with nearly $92 billion since the revolution that overthrew the regime of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Sources in the Central Bank of Egypt...

Former Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki has stressed that the UAE cannot stop the “second wave of the Arab Spring” which is taking place in Algeria and Sudan. Marzouki...

Etihad Airways is facing the biggest crisis in its history after the Emirati company reported losses for the third consecutive year. The Abu Dhabi based company said in a...

The Australian terrorist who committed the massacre at a mosque in New Zealand was calmly and even happily listening to music as he committed his crime. He was listening...

Yemen’s Houthi said they were building their ballistic capabilities and their forces stand ready to strike Riyadh and Abu Dhabi if implementation of a UN peace deal in the...

Qatar will no longer permit First Abu Dhabi Bank, the largest bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to provide services for new customers in Doha, its regulator said,...

A report shown by the Cairo Criminal Court revealed that the UAE financed an opposition group during the era of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. At the 55th session of...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday condemned its inclusion in a European Union (EU) tax haven blacklist, official WAM reported. The Arab world’s second-largest economy was one of 15 countries to...

The Yemeni Governor of Al-Mahwit province, Saleh Samei, yesterday criticised the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s role in the war raging in his country, calling on President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi “to end his...

The founding member of the opposition Algerian Rashad movement, former diplomat Mohamed Larbi Zitout accused Saudi Arabia and the UAE of working to thwart the popular movement demanding President...

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Disciplinary and Ethics Committee has fined the United Arab Emirates $150,000 for “fans’ unruly behaviour” during their AFC Asian Cup semi-final match against Qatar...

Italy and Estonia are blocking the inclusion of the UAE in an EU blacklist of countries which are deemed tax havens, documents seen by Reuters show. Foreign ministers are...

The trial of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of nearly a dozen prominent Saudi Arabian women’s rights activists detained since last year, will begin on Wednesday, her family said on Twitter, Reuters...

The country of the million martyrs will not stand helpless in the face of those who want to disparage it and its noble perseverant people who have sacrificed millions...

The International Centre for Justice and Human Rights condemned “the violations committed against women in the UAE in general and in detention centres in particular”. In a report published on its website entitled...

European Union states have added ten jurisdictions to a draft tax haven blacklist, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bermuda, an EU official told Reuters on Tuesday, in...

The invitation of India to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Abu Dhabi took many by surprise. While it has long been demanding observer status in the OIC,...

Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox internet browser, may block UAE cybersecurity firm DarkMatter over fears of it being involved in an espionage programme, Reuters revealed on Tuesday. Reports...