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Vice President Kamala Harris, right, next to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, speaks during a plenary session of the U.S.-ASEAN Summit, Friday, May 13, 2022, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

V.P. Harris, officials heading to UAE to pay respects

By Isabel Debre and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

This photo made available by the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, shows Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi, front left, and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, front right, carry the body of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates, with other members of royal family at Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed The First mosque, in Abu Dhabi, Friday, May 13, 2022. (Hamad Al Kaabi/Ministry of Presidential Affairs via AP)

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan becomes UAE’s president

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020 file photo, people crowd a street a few hours ahead of curfew in Cairo, Egypt. The world’s economy is forecast to grow around 3.6% this year, but Arab oil exporters are seeing a windfall from high energy prices that will buoy their economies and replenish their financial reserves this year and next. A report released Wednesday, April 27, 2022, by the International Monetary Fund says those hard-hit in the Mideast are oil importers and countries like Egypt that also rely heavily on food imports from the Black Sea region, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has impacted exports like sunflower oil, barley and wheat worldwide. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

IMF sees bumper year for Arab oil producers, risk for others

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Hunter Pemberton assigned to the USS Cole takes part in an exercise on the Red Sea March 29, 2022. The U.S. Navy said Wednesday, April 13, 2022, that it will begin a new task force with allied countries to patrol the Red Sea after a series of attacks attributed to Yemen's Houthi rebels in a waterway that's essential to global trade. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Christopher Stachyra/U.S. Navy, AP)

U.S. Navy says new task force to patrol Red Sea amid Yemen war

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi walks next of his Tunisian counterpart Beji Caid Essebsi, not in photo, upon his arrival at Tunis-Carthage international airport to attend the Arab Summit, in Tunis, Tunisia, March 30, 2019. Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council on Thursday, April 7, 2022, as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Yemen’s president steps aside amid efforts to end war

By Ahmed Al-Haj and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Lebanese girls hold traditional lanterns, during street performances celebrating the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Ukraine war casts shadow over Ramadan amid soaring prices

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan react on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Arab, Israeli leaders say Abraham Accords show region must keep pushing for peace

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Houthi supporters attend a rally during the seventh anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in Yemen's war in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, 26 March, 2022. (AP Photo/Abdulsalam Sharhan)

Gulf states plan Yemen talks without Houthi rebels present

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A photographer takes pictures of the Khurais oil field during a tour for journalists, 150 km east-northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, June 28, 2021. In a statement on Monday, March 21, 2022, carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia said it “won’t bear any responsibility for any shortage in oil supplies to global markets” after attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have affected the kingdom’s production. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia says it’s not responsible for high oil prices

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the group Rise to Peace, Afghans stranded at Emirates Humanitarian City protest in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 12, 2022. A senior U.S. diplomat apologized Friday, March 4, 2022 to thousands of Afghans stranded in the United Arab Emirates months after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, promising to speed repatriation for some to America while acknowledging still not knowing who some of them were. (Rise to Peace via AP)

U.S. diplomat apologizes to thousands of Afghans stuck in UAE

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC, vessels identified as the Virgo, left, and the Suez Rajan by the advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran are seen in the South China Sea on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2022. The Suez Rajan a tanker owned by Fleetscape, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management, likely took part in the illicit trade of Iranian crude oil at sea despite American sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic amid the collapse of its nuclear deal with world powers, the advocacy group alleges. The firm said Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, that it is cooperating with U.S. government investigators. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Court filing seeks to seize Iran oil on U.S.-owned tanker

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

An Emirates jetliner comes in for landing at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 11, 2019. Dubai's main airport said Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, it has retained its top place as the world's busiest for international travel with around 29 million passengers making their way through the gateway that's positioned itself as a critical link between East and West. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Dubai airport is busiest for global travel as coronavirus persists

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

The price-per-gallon sign is illuminated at a gasoline station, Feb. 11, 2022, in Denver, Colorado, USA. Saudi Arabia is signaling it isn’t willing to pump more oil and won’t push for changes to an agreement forged with Russia and other producers that has kept a lid on oil production levels. This has Washington concerned as gasoline prices rise at the pump and tensions over Ukraine fuel market uncertainty. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Saudi Arabia keeps lid on oil output as U.S. gas prices rise

By Aya Batrawy and Abdullah Al-Shihri - Associated Press

In this Saturday, June 1, 2019 photo, U.S. Navy F-18 Hornets form up off the wing of a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, and part of the Bomber Task Force deployed to the region conduct joint exercises in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility in the Arabian Sea. (Staff Sgt. Erin Piazza/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

U.S. F-22 fighter jets arrive in U.A.E. after Houthi attacks

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Houthis as a terrorist group illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

It’s time for the U.S. to name Houthis as a terrorist group

By Ali Al Nuaimi

In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army troops work near a Patriot missile battery at Al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 5, 2021. The U.S. military launched Patriot interceptor missiles during an attack Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, by Yemen's Houthi rebels that targeted the United Arab Emirates during a visit by Israel's president, the second-such time American troops have opened fire, officials said. (Staff Sgt. Jao'Torey Johnson/U.S. Air Force via AP)

U.S. military fired missiles during Yemen Houthi attack on UAE

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, center, and First Lady Michal Herzog are received by UAE Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Israel's president arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday in the first official visit by the country's head of state, the latest sign of deepening ties between the two nations as tensions rise in the region. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via AP)

UAE intercepts Yemen missile as Israeli president visits

By Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

In this satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC, an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot in the Mussafah neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is seen Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, before being targeted in an attack days later. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

United Arab Emirates intercepted ballistic missiles targeting Abu Dhabi, State-run news agency says

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC, smoke rises over an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot in the Mussafah neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. A drone attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people on Monday and sparked a fire at Abu Dhabi's international airport. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite photos show aftermath of Abu Dhabi oil site attack

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In a satellite photo by Planet Labs PBC, Abu Dhabi International Airport is seen on Dec. 8, 2021. A suspected drone attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people and sparked a separate fire at Abu Dhabi's international airport on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, police said. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) ** FILE **

Suspected drone attack in Abu Dhabi kills 3, wounds 6

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press