In a grand ceremony on the south lawn of the White House in Washington DC, US President Donald Trump presided over the signing of peace deals between Israel and two Gulf countries, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, this week.
Some Arab (...)
Iran has been struggling to increase its oil and gas output recently, especially of natural gas from the South Pars Field, a joint field with Qatar, despite the fact that US sanctions make it almost impossible for Tehran to sell its output.
Though (...)
Internal changes in the Sultanate of Oman led the news bulletins in the Arab countries and beyond last week in a development that was out of place for the usually quiet Arab Gulf country.
The new ruler of the country, Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik (...)
As thousands of Egyptian migrant workers in Kuwait are frustrated by the decision to ban flights between Cairo and Kuwait, many circles are active on a mission to poison relations between the two countries. When Kuwait announced it will open its (...)
A media spat between Turkey and the UAE this week revealed the tense situation that now prevails between the NATO member and most of the Arab Gulf countries.
Since the UAE and Saudi Arabia stepped up their support for ally Egypt in its stand against (...)
Thousands of southern Yemenis took to the streets of Al-Mukalla, the capital of the Hadhramaut province of South Yemen, earlier this week in support of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) and calling for the autonomy of the southern regions of (...)
The UAE is launching the first Arab mission to planet Mars this week with a 100 per cent Arab-made space probe that will orbit the far planet and be able to send back unprecedented data to earth early next year. The Hope Space Probe, to be launched (...)
Iraqi troops are reinforcing their positions along the border with Turkey to prevent Turkish forces from advancing deeper into Iraqi territory after more than two weeks of airstrikes and Turkey's establishment of more than ten posts inside Iraqi (...)
The Saudi authorities have taken a compromise decision on the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, by allowing a limited number of local pilgrims to perform the ritual in the week of the end of July and beginning of August due to (...)
Gulf countries, except Qatar of course, were swift to declare unreserved endorsement of Egypt's position on developments in Libya. Escalated military intervention by Turkey in the North African country supporting militias controlling the capital (...)
“We need to make our stand clear that we are supporting Palestinian people's rights and are against any further consolidation of occupation… the message needed to be directed to those concerned directly,” an Emirati source stressed. This is the (...)
False hopes have surfaced once again since the end of the Holy month of Ramadan, and coinciding with the 39th anniversary of the establishment of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), that an opening in the Qatar crisis could be possible on its third (...)
As the Gulf countries start to ease the restrictions imposed in March to control the spread of the coronavirus, the expectations of some are high, while others are more cautious about exiting from the lockdowns.
Dubai in the UAE has opened up a bit (...)
As the world prepares for a new phase in the fight to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the Gulf region is still seeing a rise in infection cases. Yet, its countries are on the verge of easing lockdown restrictions to get their economies moving (...)
The presence of voices in the Gulf against the expatriate communities that make up the majority of the populations of many of the states in the region are not unprecedented, but with the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences, (...)
In a stark disclosure, Saudi Finance Minister Mohamed Al-Jadaan admitted this week that the largest economy in the region would not “return to pre-coronavirus economic conditions, mainly as a result of the pandemic's impact on economic activities (...)
People throughout the Arab Gulf are scaling back their celebrations of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Though some countries have eased the restrictions that have been in place for weeks to stop the (...)
Though Abu Dhabi Crown-Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed has been talking over the phone to many world leaders in the last few days, his conversation with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Friday was a focus of particular attention.
It was the first (...)
Most of the Gulf countries are going into almost full lockdown for a few weeks, or until further notice, in an effort to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus among their populations.
Though the numbers of confirmed cases are relatively (...)
The 40-day mourning period for Omanis after the death of their late sultan Qaboos Bin Said ended last month, putting the country and its new Sultan Haitham Bin Tariq face to face with new realities.
However, the new sultan will continue the legacy (...)
As global oil prices crashed on Monday, US analysts started to float the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a price war in the oil markets to hurt shale oil and gas producers in the US.
They argue that Putin has pushed (...)
Fighting in Yemen escalated in recent weeks after around six months of abating. Iran-backed Houthi rebels resumed attacking Saudi Arabia while the Saudi-led coalition is increasing its military pressure on the rebels.
Earlier this week, the Houthi (...)
Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani went on a tour of three Arab countries this week, beginning with Jordan, passing through Tunisia and ending with Algeria. The emir is the country's foreign minister and with him was the Qatari finance (...)
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Egypt (ADIB Egypt), part of the UAE's largest sharia-compliant lender, posted a 44 percent rise in annual net profit, its chief executive announced on Monday.
The bank made a net profit of 1.228 billion Egyptian pounds ($78.7 (...)
Qatar has admitted that an opportunity to resolve the crisis with its Gulf neighbours and Egypt has been missed.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference last Saturday, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohamed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said that (...)
