United Arab Emirates

The Rafale first entered service in 2001 and has been progressively equipped to more advanced standards.

Trieste will play a pivotal role in the revival of the “New Golden Road,” linking Central-Eastern Europe to the Indo-Mediterranean and beyond. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Limes...

Balancing partnerships in the Middle East is never easy, especially when it involves the sale of advanced military hardware. When it involves the most advanced stealth fighter, complicated doesn’t begin...

Before Israel struck Iran last weekend in response to Iran’s October 1 missile barrage, the Islamic Republic turned to a group of unlikely partners to reduce the scope of an...

With Iran’s decision to mount a major missile strike against Israel on October 1 in retaliation for Israel’s strike on Hezbollah’s headquarters near Beirut, which killed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah...

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States (London, Hurst) 406 pp., $42.50. In January 2015, the elderly king of Saudi Arabia appointed his twenty-nine-year-old son, Mohammed...

American officials continue to harangue Middle East leaders, suggesting that economic, trade, and investment ties with China’s technology companies are risking their security ties with the United States. They are...

The Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is not known for being exemplary regarding women’s rights. While there is, of course, intra-regional variation, the latest edition of the Global...

Several of America’s traditional Middle Eastern allies—particularly, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain—have long been fearful of Iranian intentions toward them. Protection against Iran is an...

With OPEC+’s unprecedented oil production cut last week, any hopes that President Joe Biden’s trip to the Gulf would win the United States favors were laid to rest. More importantly,...

President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday, affirming the close political and economic...

Having just marked the two-year anniversary of the inauguration of the Abraham Accords, American politicians and commentators continue to sing praises of a newfound framework for “peace” and the advancement...