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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

People enjoy the beach in front of the city skyline with the world tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The multibillion-dollar world's fair in Dubai has warned that some venues on site may shut down as coronavirus cases rapidly rise in the United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

World’s fair in Dubai warns of possible closures over virus

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, a stateless fishing vessel, right, is interdicted by USS vessels while transiting international waters in the North Arabian Sea on Dec. 20, 2021. The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen, it said late Wednesday, Dec. 22. (U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. Navy says it seizes arms from Iran likely bound for Yemen

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

U.N. nuclear chief: Limited Iran access giving ‘blurred image’

By Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi arrives for an interview with The Associated Press, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. Grossi, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Tuesday that the restrictions faced by his inspectors in Iran threaten to give the world only a “very blurred image” of Tehran's program as it enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

The AP Interview: UN nuke chief says view of Iran blurred

By Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Israel Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, is received by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed at his private palace in Abu Dhabi, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. (Haim Zach/Israel Government Press Office via AP)

Person on Israeli PM’s flight from UAE tests COVID positive

Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. Bennett announced that he would make the first official visit by a sitting premier to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday as part of a blitz of regional diplomacy amid the backdrop of struggling nuclear talks with Iran. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, Pool)

Israel’s Bennett to make first official visit to UAE

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

FILE - Dave Grohl performs with the Foo Fighters during the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in Cleveland. The Foo Fighters rock band has called off its concert at the Formula One race in Abu Dhabi due to &quot;unforeseen medical circumstances,&quot; event organizers said on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/David Richard, File)

Foo Fighters cancel F1 Abu Dhabi concert for medical reasons

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France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, shakes hand with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, prior to a meeting, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Still reeling from the recent submarine deal rapture by Western allies, French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the energy-rich Arab countries of the Persian Gulf on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, with an aim to close a lucrative arms deal and strengthen France's leadership role in renewed international efforts to revive Iran's cratered nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France signs weapons mega-deal with UAE as Macron tours Gulf

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press

In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, an Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. Members of the Air Force and Space Force will now be able to tell others what pronouns they use in official correspondence under a just-adopted diversity policy change endorsed by the senior brass. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris via AP)

Air Force official says US to maintain presence in Mideast

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, U.S. President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan pose for a photo on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The bloodshed in the Gaza Strip has unleashed a chorus of voices across Gulf Arab states that are fiercely critical of Israel and emphatically supportive of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

EXCLUSIVE: Trump was ‘very close’ to getting Saudis to normalize ties with Israel

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 31 , 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Army, Afghan children take a piece of chalk at a children's activity event held by non-governmental charities at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused. One internal document seen by The Associated Press says the State Department has sought “urgent guidance” from other agencies after purported child brides were brought to Fort McCoy. (Spc. Rhianna Ballenger/U.S. Army via AP)

Afghan evacuation raises concerns about child trafficking

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Afghans prepare to to be evacuated aboard a Qatari transport plane, at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August, 18, 2021. Qatar played an out-sized role in U.S. efforts to evacuate tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan. Now the tiny Gulf Arab state is being asked to help shape what is next for Afghanistan because of its ties with both Washington and the Taliban insurgents now in charge in Kabul. (Qatar Government Communications Office via AP)

Qatar emerges as key player in Afghanistan after US pullout

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

A ship in the Gulf of Oman may have been a hijacking target Tuesday. (AP Graphic)

British navy group: Hijackers have left vessel off UAE coast

By Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

This photo from Thursday Jan. 19, 2017, shows Inaugural Committee chairman Tom Barrack speaks at a pre-Inaugural &quot;Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration&quot; at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Barrack, chair of former President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee, was arrested Tuesday, July 20, 2021, in California on charges alleging that he and others conspired to influence Trump's foreign policy positions to benefit the United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Trump inaugural committee chair to be released on $250M bail

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 6, 2020 file photo, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia, arrives for a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, and non OPEC members at OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria. The OPEC oil cartel led by Saudi Arabia and other allied producing countries resumed talks on Monday, July 5, 2021, amid a standoff with the United Arab Emirates over how much to raise production levels with demand still hampered by threats from new variants of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

OPEC oil alliance at impasse between Saudi Arabia and UAE

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

In this June 27, 2021, file photo, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome. Israel's new foreign minister is heading to the United Arab Emirates for a state visit, the first high-level delegation by an Israeli official since the two countries signed an agreement to normalize relations last year. Lapid took off on Tuesday, June 29, for Abu Dhabi, where he will inaugurate the new Israeli Embassy and meet Emirati ministers. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

New Israeli foreign minister lands in UAE on 1st state visit

By Aya Batrawy and Israel Debre - Associated Press