Amid the Israeli aggression on Qatar, urgent questions arose over Washington’s complicity and whether the Gulf states that normalized relations would go so far as to cut ties with the Israeli Occupation in defense of the Gulf system and its much-touted unity.

Since Israeli Occupation attacks prevented Syrian government forces from entering the Druze-majority Sweida province in southern Syria, calls for secession led by Hikmat al-Hijri have intensified.

In near-total silence and far from the media spotlight, one of Egypt’s largest privately owned farms has slipped into the hands of an Emirati company.

After a travel ban that had been in place since 2021, the UAE’s decision to allow its citizens to visit Lebanon signals a possible return of Emirati investment to a country whose political landscape is starting to shift.

In a fresh scandal, Washington has added seven companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates to its sanctions program targeting entities involved in the war in Sudan.