United Arab Emirates

The U.N. human rights office has asked the United Arab Emirates for evidence that an Emirati princess held against her will for almost three years is still alive

Iran set a deadline of Feb. 21, vowing that if oil and banking sanctions are not lifted, it will expel the U.N.’s nuclear inspectors from the country.

Dubai’s real estate market has made a “hard landing” but lower prices may be a good time for investors looking to buy, said Hussain Sajwani, Damac chairman.

What began as a pitch for investment to global firms has just become something much more aggressive.

The United Arab Emirates has published the first image for its Mars probe now circling the red planet.

Recovery will be varied and based largely on countries’ investments and strategies for vaccine distribution, the IMF’s Jihad Azour told CNBC.

Specific details of the new policy are yet to be seen, but it has the potential to spur greater investment in the UAE long term, experts say.

The Al-Ula declaration resolves all of the outstanding issues that Qatar and other Arab nations had, said Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, Saudi’s foreign minister.

Organizers expect 25 million visitors to attend over the course of the six-month event, despite concerns about the pandemic’s impact on travel and tourism.

Several previous attempts to reach a solution have failed over contentious sticking points between the Gulf monarchies.

The United Arab Emirates says a Chinese coronavirus vaccine tested in the federation of sheikhdoms is 86% effective, though it released few details

The announcement was thin on details, however, and did not mention any side effects experienced by patients.

OPEC+ is expected to consider delaying its output increase at its meeting this week, but there are “some cracks in the foundation,” said Herman Wang of S&P Global Platts.

The Trump administration has formally notified Congress that it plans to sell 50 advanced F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as part of a broader arms deal worth more than $23 billion.

President Donald Trump says Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so in the run-up to Election Day

Israel’s agreement to establish diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates marks a watershed moment in its relations with Arab countries, but the Palestinians say it puts a just resolution of the Middle East conflict even further out of reach

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to normalize relations between the two nations after decades of tension. The countries are expected to exchange embassies and ambassadors in the coming weeks.

U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf have loudly pushed for hawkish policies by Washington to pressure, isolate and cripple Iran, but this high-stakes strategy is now being put to the test by the unexpected U.S. strike that killed Iran’s most powerful military commander last week, thrusting the region closer to full-blown conflict.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring over 300 others, officials said. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran’s Eastern Azerbaijan province at 2:17 a.m., Iran’s seismological center said. The area is some 400 kilometers (250 miles) northwest of Iran’s capital, Tehran. Over 40 aftershocks rattled the rural region nestled in...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen staged multiple airstrikes on a detention center operated by the Houthi rebels in the southwestern province of Dhamar, killing at least 100 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, officials and the rebels’ health ministry said. Franz Rauchenstein, the head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen, suggested that the death toll could be higher...