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The Taliban wants to change the venue of scheduled peace talks with the United States this month from Saudi Arabia to Qatar over Riyadh’s push to include the Afghan government in the negotiations, members of the Taliban declared on Sunday.

The internationally-recognized government of Yemen echoed the charges raised by a new United Nations report and accused the Iran-backed Houthi rebels of stealing food from humanitarian aid programs.

Syria says the United Arab Emirates will reopen its embassy in Damascus for the first time in seven years.

A princess who tried to flee the United Arab Emirates months ago is “a troubled young woman”, a former UN human rights chief said on Thursday after meeting her this month.

Mueller is preparing to reveal information outlining Middle Eastern countries’ efforts to meddle in the 2016 election, according to a report. 

The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will visit Abu Dhabi in February 2019, the first visit by any pope in history to the Arabian Peninsula.

A Moroccan woman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been accused of killing her boyfriend and later serving him as a traditional homemade dish, local officials said on Wednesday. 

TEL AVIV – The occupation of the Palestinians is baloney, empires have conquered and replaced entire populations and no one ever bats an eyelid, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a faction meeting for his Likud party on Monday. 

The diplomatic crisis over Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul does not appear to have damaged the Sunni Arab alliance led by Saudi Arabia.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A court in Dubai has sentenced an Egyptian taxi driver to six months in prison and deportation after convicting him of sexually assaulting a U.S. Navy officer.

Pakistan’s new prime minister, former cricket player Imran Khan, is in Saudi Arabia as part of his first official overseas trip.

Nearly half of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were able to remain in the United States, undetected, despite having overstayed their visas.

More than 195,000 foreign nationals have been imported to the United States since 2002 from the countries of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon — the foreign countries where the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists came from. 

Israelis will be able to compete equally at the upcoming Abu Dhabi Grand Slam, after the United Arab Emirates reversed its policy of banning athletes from the Jewish state from using Israeli symbols, the International Judo Federation (IJF) said Monday.

The first two astronauts have been selected by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to ready for a mission to the International Space Station, Dubai’s ruler said Monday.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired four missiles at Saudi Arabia during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. The Saudi military reports it intercepted all four missiles.

An “Arab NATO” security coalition of Middle East states is being planned by Washington as a buffer to thwart Iran’s military expansionism in the region.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the Middle East and Africa between July 19 and July 27 to sell that region Beijing’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project, a global infrastructure plan to give China control of the world’s great ports, roads, and railways.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will embark on an international visit to the United Arab Emirates and several Western-allied countries following his visit to North Korea this week, during which he will reportedly work to further isolate Iran.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Tuesday fired a rocket at Saudi Arabia’s southern Jizan province, leaving a five-year-old child wounded, Saudi authorities said.

A Saudi Arabian TV presenter has been forced to flee the country after claims she had violated the kingdom’s strict Islamic dress code for women.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi women took the driver’s seat for the first time in their country’s history after midnight Sunday, steering their way through busy streets just minutes after the world’s last remaining ban on women driving was lifted.

The Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting to restore the internationally-recognized government of Yemen reported on Wednesday that the strategically vital airport in Hodeidah was captured from Houthi insurgents without any civilian casualties, despite the Houthi tactic of placing armored fighting vehicles in civilian areas.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Officials in a Saudi-led coalition now battling Shiite rebels for control of a crucial port in Yemen on Tuesday displayed weapons captured on the battlefield that they say show Iran is arming the insurgents.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi-led forces fought to retake the international airport of Yemen’s rebel-held port city of Hodeida from the Shiite Houthi rebels, Yemeni officials and witnesses said on Saturday, as combat intensified for the starving nation’s main gateway for food shipments.

Saudi air defences on Sunday intercepted a ballistic missile over the southern city of Jizan after being fired from rebel-held territory in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi-led military coalition said.

“To each of you and to the Muslims around the world, Ramadan Mubarak,” Trump said, during remarks at the dinner, extending the Ramadan greeting shared by Muslims. “In gathering together this evening we honor a sacred tradition of one of the world’s great religions.”

The Trump administration is considering a plea from the United Arab Emirates for American military assistance in Yemen, specifically to capture the vital port city of Hodeidah from Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

President Donald Trump’s State Department will reportedly announce a new trade agreement with United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday, scoring a victory in a trade dispute over UAE’s subsidizing its two state-owned airlines to the detriment of U.S. airlines and workers.

The occupation of historic Socotra archipelago by forces of the United Arab Emirates was denounced on Monday as an “unjustified” attack on “national sovereignty.”

Contents: Residents of Yemen’s Socotra island protest UAE military deployment; Rift grows between Saudi Arabia and UAE in Yemen

During his visit to Jordan on Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared that Jordan’s stability is “indispensable for regional stability” and pledged to “dramatically develop our bilateral ties” on security and trade issues.

Lobbyists for the U.S. Travel Association, led by prominent NeverTrumpers, descended on the nation’s capital last month to persuade lawmakers. American pilots accuse U.S. Travel of trying to keep President Trump from enforcing trade deals that support his America First agenda, and question whether the group might even be unregistered foreign agents in violation of federal law.

PARIS — The crown prince of Saudi Arabia is making his first official visit to France, which is hoping to profit from his shake-up of the conservative kingdom.

With Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the cusp of winning a second term in this month’s election, what’s left of the opposition is reduced to praying he will step aside in four years.

NEW YORK — Jonathan M. Winer, the Obama State Department official who acknowledged regularly interfacing and exchanging information with the author of the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier, headed a firm that helped the company owned by the United Arab Emirates government in its controversial failed bid to take over some terminal operations at numerous major American ports.