The Latest Breaking News from Gulf

The United Arab Emirates said it intercepted three drones that entered its airspace over unpopulated areas early on Wednesday in the fourth such attack on the Gulf commercial and tourism hub in the past few weeks.

Israel is taking part in a huge U.S.-led naval exercise in the Middle East, for the first time publicly joining Saudi Arabia and Oman, two counties it has no diplomatic relations with despite its normalisation of ties with some Gulf states.

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz began a visit to Bahrain on Wednesday amid heightened tensions in the Gulf after missile attacks on the United Arab Emirates by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

Better air monitoring is coming to the Gulf, along with a crackdown on polluters

Experts are forecasting that the free trade agreement recently signed between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and South Korea will find its way into force within 6 months. The agreement is set to boost the role of Gulf chambers and federations, especially the ones in Saudi Arabia, in increasing trade…

The United States said it is sending fighter jets to assist the United Arab Emirates following missile attacks on the Gulf state launched by Yemen's Houthi movement, including a foiled attack aimed at a base hosting U.S. forces.

The United Arab Emirates will introduce a corporate tax from mid-2023, the finance ministry said Monday, as the country seeks to diversify its income. The Gulf financial center will tax business profits over 375,000 AED ($102,000) at 9.0 percent from June next year, a statement said. The announcement is the…

Some soldiers were as young as seven, reports the United Nations

Maronite Patriarch Beshara Al-Rai criticized on Sunday the Lebanese authorities’ position on Hezbollah’s weapons, stressing that officials “have no right to justify the plurality of arms.” In response, Grand Jaafari Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan emphasized that the Shiite sect’s “choice begins and ends with the resistance,” meaning Hezbollah. Beirut's response…

Qatar's crisis solving skills face a new diplomatic challenge on Monday when its emir meets President Joe Biden to examine a possible role for the Gulf state in cushioning the economic aftershocks from a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Israel's president spoke at Dubai's Expo 2020 world fair on Monday on the first presidential visit to the United Arab Emirates, despite the Gulf state overnight saying it had intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen. The UAE became the first Gulf state to normalize…