Somalia`s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addresses an emergency joint parliamentary session in Mogadishu, Somalia...

The president of the Yemen`s Southern Transitional Council Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, in New York in 2023...

Smoke rises in the aftermath of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike, which targeted what it described as foreign military support to UAE-backed southern separatists, in Yemen`s southern port of Mukalla on December 30, 2025...

Leader of Yemen`s UAE-led coalition Aidarous al-Zubaidi pictured during the Davos forum in Switzerland on January 18, 2024...

Separatist forces of Southern Transitional Council (STC) at a check point, in Aden, Yemen, on December 31, 2025...

Damaged military vehicles, reportedly sent by the United Arab Emirates to support Southern Transitional Council (STC) separatist forces, are seen following an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in the port of Mukalla, southern Yemen, December 30, 2025...

Southern troops patrol during a rally calling for South Yemen`s secession in the southern port city of Aden, on December 25, 2025...

Tensions in Yemen between two old allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have heightened over the past few weeks...

Iran`s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) and his Cypriot counterpart Constantinos Kombos Iran`s foreign minister has reiterated the Islamic Republic`s firm rejection of any interventionist stances towards its territorial integrity during a telephone conversation with his Cypriot counterpart, following Tehran`s recent protest to Nicosia over remarks concerning its Persian Gulf islands...

The deal between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv comes amid mounting condemnation from human rights organizations over Israel`s genocide in Gaza...

RSF forces walk amid bodies and burning vehicles during an attack near el-Fasher, Sudan, in this image from video released on Oct...

In recent months, verbal and media tensions between Algeria and the UAE have gone beyond normal levels, signaling a deep geopolitical competition in North Africa and the Sahel region...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has dismissed the hackneyed claims about three Iranian islands in the final statement of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), warning the neighboring states not to test the Islamic Republic`s resolve to safeguard its sovereignty...

Iran`s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has condemned the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)`s insistence on repeating the UAE`s "baseless and incorrect" territorial claims over the Iranian islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb...

Ali Shamkhani, a representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to the Defense Council A representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei at the Defense Council has warned the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) against "unconstructive" claims regarding the three Iranian islands and the Arash gas field...

Experts say Al Saud and Al Nahyan families have also courted Trump directly with huge investments...

Sudan`s army chief and Sovereignty Council President General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan The Sudanese army has rejected a US proposal for a ceasefire, vowing instead to intensify its fight against the so-called Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the country`s paramilitary group that now control much of western Sudan...

After a several-month halt, Sudan is once again a theater for heavy military clashes...

The silence of the international community over the genocide in Sudan stems from a combination of political convenience, economic interests, and moral hypocrisy, says an analyst...

The report reveals how an Israeli desalination firm quietly broke into the Arab states of the Persian Gulf region...

File photo shows a view of the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s building in the capital Tehran...

An injured person is assisted at Shifa Hospital after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike against the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on October 17, 2023...

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (R) meets with Emirati President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on October 5, 2023...

The file photo shows a French-made Rafale fighter jet...

Palestinian artist Dalal Abu-Amneh (Photo via Twitter) A Palestinian artist and a Kuwaiti inventor have boycotted the Dubai’s extravagant Expo 2020 over the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) signing of a normalization agreement and opening of diplomatic relations with Israel...

The war on Yemen, in its seventh year, has entered a new phase...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned that the Israeli regime’s presence in the region is a threat to all regional countries, urging efforts to prevent those who create tensions from gaining a foothold there...

This picture shows a purported Yemeni missile strike against Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, early on January 24, 2022...

Earlier this month, JP Morgan warned that Brent could rise to $125 per barrel...

Israeli president Isaac Herzog and his wife land in the United Arab Emirates in first official visit on Jan...

Days after the Yemeni army’s retaliatory aerial attacks on vital Emirati facilities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the UAE-backed mercenary troops announced they were pulling out of the areas they had occupied in strategic Ma’rib province...

This picture provided by the media bureau of Yemen’s Operations Command Center shows Burkan-2 (Volcano-2) ballistic missiles on display in Sana’a, Yemen...

Yemenis pray during a mass funeral in Sa’ada on January 25, 2022 for those killed in Saudi airstrikes on a prison in the northern Yemeni province on the weekend...

This picture shows a purported Yemeni missile strike against Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, early on January 24, 2022...

Rescuers are carrying a man injured by airstrikes on a detention center in Sa’ada, Yemen, on Friday...

This image grab from a handout video made available by the media bureau of Yemen’s Operations Command Center on January 21, 2022 shows destruction at a prison in Sa’ada Province after it was hit in a Saudi airstrike...

A picture shows a partial view of the Msaffah industrial district in the Emiarti capital Abu Dhabi on January 17, 2022...

In this satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC, smoke rises over an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co...

UAE’s Etihad Airways halts flights to Saudi city of Medina following attacks by Yemen’s Houthis...

A general view of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates The recent move by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to switch traditional working days at the end of the week to Western-style weekends has been met with criticism from Emirati social media users, activists and employees...

UAE human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor Emirati prison authorities have retaliated against rights activist Ahmed Mansoor after the publication of letters he wrote detailing his mistreatment and inhumane conditions in jail...

FILE PHOTO © AFP / Mohamad Ali Harissi The United Arab Emirates has allowed international travel to the jabbed and boosted only Unvaccinated UAE citizens will be banned from traveling abroad starting January 10, according to local media, citing the country’s crisis management agencies...

Reuters - Turkish and Qatari officials will meet in Doha on Monday night and later travel together to Kabul to discuss a formal deal to operate the Afghan capital’s airport with the ruling Taliban, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said...

Military-grade spyware maker, NSO Group, has faced many scandals with product traced to high-profile phone hacks...

An American F-35 warplane The United Arab Emirates has reportedly threatened to quit a $23-billion military deal with the US over Washington’s tough requirements meant to shield the weapons against what the Americans call Chinese espionage...

A solar farm in Iran. The country plans to install 5,000 MW of renewables by 2022...

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi (R) and UAE’s National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan meet in Tehran on December 6, 2021...

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani (R) meets with the National Security Advisor of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Tehran, Iran, On December 6, 2021...

UAE national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan The UAE’s national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan will visit Tehran Monday for talks with his Iranian counterpart and some other high-ranking officials, Iran’s top security body says...

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018...