A senior military commander of Yemen’s rebel Houthi group has threatened UAE oil companies and their “glass cities” will be among the group’s future targets. The message comes following...

The Rebuild Syria Expo, an exhibition to campaign and network for the reconstruction of the war-torn country, has begun with 390 companies from 31 states taking part. Having started...

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa discussed Tuesday issues of mutual security concern, the Pentagon said amid heightened tensions in the region...

The forces of the internationally recognised government of National Accord (GNA) accused “UAE drones” of targeting the Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli. According to a brief statement from the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the capacity to increase oil production should there be a disruption in global supplies, UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouei has said. In a press statement yesterday,...

Saudi Arabia will be sending $500 million in aid next week to the UN to help fund its response to the on-going humanitarian crisis in Yemen. UN aid chief...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized on Monday an oil tanker with 11 people on board flying the UAE flag. Fars News Agency reported that the ship, which was...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Saturday, knocking out more than half the Kingdom’s output, Reuters reports....

Six soldiers from the United Arab Emirates were killed in a vehicle collision in Yemen, the UAE’s state news agency WAM reported on Friday. The UAE is a member...

Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are exchanging roles in Yemen. While the former pretends to be completely biased in favour of the legitimacy, which requested its interference, the latter has...

Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf said his country supports the Greek Cypriots, which he described as an ally, against Turkey’s oil and gas exploration activities in the...

The Gulf crisis and the blockade of Qatar have reached an important juncture, after seemingly dwindling until a statement was issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry a few days...

The chairman of a UN body of experts on Yemen has confirmed the involvement of UAE forces in the sexual abuse of detainees held in secret prisons in the...

Omar Ahmed interviews Salah Al-Noud of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council

About two weeks after the abortive coup in Turkey in July 2016, I reported the allegation from a high-level Turkish security source that the United Arab Emirates had collaborated with...

The UAE is intent on executing a coup on the Yemeni island of Socotra, according to adviser to the government’s Ministry of Information, Mukhtar Al-Rahbi. In a series of...

Eighteen migrants have been found in the bed of a lorry trying to cross the Buraimi-Al Ain border checkpoint into the UAE from Oman. Photos posted on the official...

The internationally recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) is seeking Arab and international support for its efforts to stop the violence in the capital Tripoli and force the...

Al-Qaeda forces in southern Yemen yesterday managed to wrestle control of a district in the Abyan province which is the hometown of Saudi-backed Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi....

Amid allegations of UAE-backed foreign mercenaries arriving on the Yemeni island of Socotra, it was reported yesterday that the island’s main airport has temporarily suspended flights from UAE’s Emirates...

Members of the southern Yemeni diaspora joined together in solidarity with the UAE government thanking it for its support for the separatist secessionist movement

Some 17 rights groups have renewed their call for France to immediately stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, after a new UN report confirmed their involvement...

The US’ attacks on civilians in Yemen have taken centre stage on Twitter as social media users highlight America’s actions using the hashtag #USAEnemyOfPeace. America has been supporting the...

A new batch of mercenaries have arrived in Yemen’s Socotra island bolstering the UAE’s presence in the area, sources at Socotra International Airport have said. Dozens of Indian and...

Emirati activist Ahmed Mansour has been on hunger strike for three weeks, Amnesty International said, in protest against “his prison conditions and his unfair trial”. Mansour was sentenced and...

Death toll from Sunday’s airstrike by Saudi-led coalition on a prison in southwestern Yemen climbed to 156, Houthi rebel group said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV cited...

Dozens of armoured vehicles belonging to Islah Party militants were reported to have moved from Marib province to Shabwa yesterday according to sources. It has also been reported that...

Pakistan’s Air Force is close to closing a deal with Egypt to buy Dassault Mirage-V aircraft after long negotiations head towards a close. The Egyptian Air Force has retired...

The President of the Saudi-American Public Relations Affairs Committee (SAPRAC), Salman Al-Ansari, attacked on Tuesday the United Arab Emirates, considering that it is “fooling” Riyadh under the pretext of...

The recently-held meetings between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iranian officials have caught many by surprise, particularly given that, not long ago, the UAE – along with Saudi...

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have sent their most senior envoys to Pakistan as Indian forces are accused of carrying out daily atrocities in occupied Kashmir. The delegation, which...

Saudi Arabia has deployed more troops and armed vehicles to south Yemen in an attempt to quell the clashes between coalition allies, namely the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and the...