For thousands of Pakistanis, the United Arab Emirates has long been a prime destination for work, migration, and family reunification; now it suddenly feels like a door quietly swinging shut.

As theUAE presents itself to the world as a model of Arab modernity, openness, and innovation, the walls of its ruling palace conceal an intense power struggle between two influential brothers: Thnoun bin Zayed, and Hazza bin Zayed.

The United Arab Emirates faces accusations of participating in an Israeli scheme to displace Palestinians by launching controversial projects aimed at pushing residents from northern Gaza to its southern areas.

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.