While the U.S. tightly restricts gambling and betting platforms and sharply limits their advertising, the UAE is moving in the opposite direction, racing to legalize gambling, sports betting, and related digital platforms.

U.S. officials are pressuring Iraq’s Coordination Framework to form a government free of armed factions and strengthen state institutions amid regional stakes.

President Donald Trump recently denigrated immigrants from shithole countries, reviving a comment he used during his first term in office that sparked criticism.

A growing American footprint is taking shape in Libya, made unmistakably clear by the first official visit of Gen. Dagvin Anderson, the head of United States Africa Command.

Tensions between Iran and the Gulf states have spiked sharply in the wake of a GCC summit in Manama, where member countries renewed their call for Tehran to end its “occupation” of the three Emirati islands.