United Arab Emirates

$10 billion for trains, ports, and pipelines was supposed to show off his peacemaking prowess.

The 2011 Libyan intervention pitched the region into a decade of chaos and undermined U.S. confidence in the wisdom of using military force to save lives.

Exporting advanced weapons systems to the Middle East will create very few jobs at home. Washington must base its decisions on national security strategy rather than domestic politics.

What the harrowing saga of a Dubai princess reveals about her country’s international reputation.

A U.N. report suggests the UAE is using Sudanese fighters to battle the internationally recognized Libyan government.

Efforts at regional reconciliation have done nothing to address the core differences that divide Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.

It probably won’t work out well for either party.

Abbas agrees to face voters more than a decade after his term expired.

India’s tricky regional balance of power isn’t made any easier by sectarian tensions.

The Abraham Accords didn’t just seal a wary detente. It cemented Israel’s first regional partnership.

A peculiar deal that symbolized the entente between Israel and the UAE could get nixed.

The shifting ground in the Middle East is creating new options for breaking the stalemate.

Though Israel remains opposed to Palestinian independence, 2020 marked the year of its acceptance in the region.

But the vote laid down a marker for the incoming Biden administration on Democrats’ opposition to Middle Eastern arms sales and U.S. involvement in the conflict in Yemen.

The Defense Department’s inspector general found that the United Arab Emirates is financing Russian Wagner Group mercenaries—just as Trump aims to sell the UAE billions of dollars worth of arms.

He was successful because only an iconoclastic president could have rejected false assumptions and failed strategies.

As Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed goes to war against Ethiopia’s former rulers—the Tigray People’s Liberation Front—Khartoum’s moves will determine whether the conflict remains a local affair or a regional conflagration.