Watching political opportunism at its crudest is an ugly thing. The most audacious attempts usually generate sarcastic laughter just as easily as disbelief and anger. What is interesting about...

Jordanian security services have arrested the Deputy Comptroller General of the Muslim Brotherhood Zaki Bani Irsheid yesterday following comments he made against the UAE, a security source said. The...

The recent decision by the United Arab Emirates to include major Muslim American organisations such as CAIR and the Muslim American Society amongst the other 83 international organisations as...

The first thing that catches the eye about the newly-released United Arab Emirates list of 83 "terrorist organisations" is its broad sweep. It contains Islamic institutions from across Europe,...

Britain asked the United Arab Emirates on Monday to clarify why it has placed three UK-based Islamic organisations on its list of terrorist groups without any further explanation. The...

Scores of activists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been harassed, arrested and in some cases tortured in custody according to a new report by Amnesty International. The...

Washington announced that it has contacted officials in the UAE asking for reasons why two American-Islamic organisations were included in the country's list of terror groups. Yesterday, US State...

According to Anadolu news agency, the Gulf countries have agreed to hold the upcoming Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Doha following a surprise summit that was held in...

The UAE's categorisation of the organisation as a terrorist group is "a foregone conclusion that is not surprising and will not affect the future of the group", Ibrahim Munir,...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) expressed its surprise on Monday over the decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to include the bloc on the country's list...

Iranian oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh is preparing to visit the UAE this week to discuss the circumstances regarding the fall in oil prices and how to address this...

Qatari Professor of Political Studies Mohamed al-Misfer revealed on Friday that the consultation meeting for the Gulf Cooperation Council scheduled for Sunday is to prepare for the upcoming conference...

They've been referred to as "moderates" and even the "Axis of Reason". Now, America's friends in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are in talks to...

The early signs of a public campaign against human rights violations by the United Arab Emirates (UEA) looked to be taking shape in London yesterday evening. A public seminar...

Saudi Arabia and the UAE paid tribute to Egypt's efforts to tackle challenges to its security and for ensuring the rule of law. During Egypt's Universal Periodic Review (UPR)...

The Arab Spring appeared at first like a political contagion spreading throughout the Arab world. A fault-line between vibrant generations of youth and ossified ruling elites, as a result...

A coalition focused on human rights in the Arab countries, which includes 13 European human rights organisations, has called for a demonstration to take place in front of the...

Iran has announced that it filed a complaint against the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) due to the United Arab Emirates' use of "a false name for the Persian...

The United Arab Emirates is played a big role in selling the houses of Arabs in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, to Israeli settlement construction companies, a senior member...

Tahira's arm was broken, after yet another vicious assault from her employer. I say "employer" – in reality, Tahira wasn't being paid. She slept on the floor of the...

The apology offered to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey by U.S. Vice President Biden is unimportant. What is really important is what he said disclosing that...

Algeria's foreign ministry has summoned the UAE ambassador to explain his country's decision to freeze the issuing of visas to Algerians under the age of 40. According to Algeria's...

US Vice-President Joe Biden apologised on Tuesday to Saudi Arabia, after already making apologies to Turkey and the UAE, for saying that they have supported terrorism in the Middle...

An international human rights group on Sunday accused the United Arab Emirates of secretly arresting 10 Libyan citizens and six Emiratis in August and September and called on authorities...

The German government has approved arms exports to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates sparking fierce criticism from the opposition. Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative-left coalition government informed Federal...

The German government has approved arms exports to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates sparking fierce criticism from the opposition. Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative-left coalition government informed Federal...

How typical of the United Arab Emirates to turn the bombing of Iraq and Syria into a reputation-laundering propaganda operation. Pictures of Mariam Hassan Salem Al-Mansouri, the first Emirati...

The interior ministers of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf States called on the Shia Al-Houthi group in Yemen to return all headquarters and official...

An Israeli newspaper surprised its readers with a report from inside the Emirati capital city of Abu Dhabi, thus revealing it has an Israeli correspondent, Eli Leon, in the...

The Moroccan Foreign Exchange Office, the institution in charge of overseeing trade and economic exchanges with foreign countries, said on Thursday that trade between Morocco and the Gulf Cooperation...

I was recently visited by two American diplomats in Education City in Qatar who are interested in the political transformations in the Arab region. We had a long talk...

The US and its Arab partners air raids against oil fields controlled by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Syria yesterday evening, the Pentagon announced. The source confirmed that Saudi...