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.
TEL AVIV – A senior Egyptian intelligence official derided Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to one of his main rivals in a newly leaked phone call, saying the Palestinian Authority chief is a “camel” who is old and stupid and that the Fatah party is “screwed” under his leadership.
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 Dubai police have been investigating claims that a Pakistani woman forced her 16-year-old daughter into prostitution to finance her family’s travel expenses for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
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.
The UAE’s single medal so far in the 2016 Olympic Games was won by a Moldavian who was offered citizenship for this purpose.
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.
TEL AVIV – Turkish officials suspect that Mohammed Dahlan, the one-time Palestinian security boss and today’s President Mahmoud Abbas’ arch-rival, was involved in the failed attempt to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month, Arab and international reports now claim.
Turkey is convinced Arab countries were involved in Friday night’s failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem. The source said that Ankara believes the UAE and Egypt, two of the bitterest enemies
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.
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JAFFA, Israel – A UAE lawyer offered President Barack Obama a job after he leaves the White House in January next year, so that the politician can live amongst Muslims and become acquainted with the “true meaning of Islamic tolerance.”
The Jordanian headquarters of the Islamist movement known as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been shut down by law enforcement, various news outlets report.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested a 25-year-old American woman on February 23 for “insulting” the state, though she claims “nothing happened.”
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
Lebanon must take action to stop Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah from exporting its “mercenaries” into Yemen and Syria, reportedly urged a Saudi military spokesman.
Our legal team, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), has taken on the case of the Oklahoma gun range that was targeted by the UAE-designated terror group, the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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
Contents: Plans continue for Western military deployment into Libya; UAE says it’s ready to supply ground troops to fight ISIS in Syria
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
Contents: Saudi Arabia and Iran accuse each other of terrorism; Arab countries deeply divided over Iran vs Saudi Arabia confrontation
Contents: Numerous countries end diplomatic relations with Iran after Saudi embassy firebombing Iran seeks to pass the blame for the Saudi embassy firebombing Desperate Chinese officials remove stock market circuit breakers
On Wednesday, the Sunni nations of Qatar and Djibouti announced they would be severing diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran, becoming the 9th and 10th nations to officially cut relations, roll back ties, or condemn the Shiite theocracy in the past week.
Contents: Sectarian Sunni-Shia split deepens over Iran – Saudi split; President Obama may have to choose between Saudi Arabia and Iran; Hezbollah-Israel violence growing on Lebanon border; Residents of Tel Aviv Israel in panic after Friday’s gunfire attack; European and Wall St stocks fall sharply, following China
The companies that built most of the mega-skyscrapers in Dubai have “non-fire-rated exterior panels,” which means they may not be structurally sufficient in the wake of a blaze akin to the fire that occurred at the Address Downtown Hotel on New Year’s Eve, UAE’s The National reports.
Bahrain and Sudan have joined their ally Saudi Arabia in formally severing diplomatic ties with Iran, while the United Arab Emirates has “downgraded” its diplomatic team, recalling its ambassador from Tehran and announcing that it would reduce the number of diplomats assigned to Iran.
The Obama administration, continuing its goal of closing the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, is readying the “transfer” of 17 “lower-level detainees” from the country, officials told The New York Times.
The UAE government says it does not plan to change its relationship with Israel any time soon, despite Israel’s announcement of opening its first official diplomatic mission in the UAE, according to the Jewish Press.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a member of a U.S.-backed coalition led by Saudi Arabia, has deployed to Yemen more than 400 Colombian mercenaries who had been training in the Emirati desert to combat Iran-linked Shiite rebels known as Houthis, reports The New York Times (NYT).
TEL AVIV – Although the Islamic State terror group has already taken credit for downing a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula, such a claim has not convinced many within the Arab world who see events through the lens
The Defense Department announced on Monday that five Yemeni nationals have been released from the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, including an Al Qaeda terrorist who reportedly had close ties with Osama bin Laden. They are in transit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon said.
Contents: Israel reopens its embassy in Cairo, Egypt after four years; Four more Arab countries join war in Yemen with ground troops
Qatar has deployed 1,000 soldiers into Yemen to help the Saudi-led coalition combat Iran-backed Houthi militants and those aligned with former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, as part of a continuing quest to push out the opposition forces and reinstall the internationally-recognized government in Sanaa.
Contents: The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen suffers its deadliest day; In major escalation in Yemen war, Qatar is sending 1,000 troops; Britain’s RAF drones target and kill British nationals in Syria
The ongoing wars in the Levant area of the Middle East, particularly in Syria, have claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands, and many have chosen to flee in desperation. However, none of these migrants from war-torn countries seem to be traveling south to the Gulf, and for good reason.
