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FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit secure the area in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

French weapons system found in Sudan is likely violation of U.N. arms embargo, says Amnesty

By Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Managing Director of state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) Sultan al-Jaber speaks during the inaugural session of annual Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

UAE’s oil summit opens amid U.S. election uncertainty, plans output boost

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by Dubai Duty Free, Colm McLoughlin poses for a photograph in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. McLoughlin, an Irishman who landed in the deserts of the United Arab Emirates and helped lead Dubai Duty Free into becoming an airport retail behemoth generating billions of dollars, died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. He was 81. (Dubai Duty Free via AP)

Colm McLoughlin, Irishman who led Dubai Duty Free to become an airport retail giant, dies at age 81

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Macklemore performs at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater during the South by Southwest Music Festival on Friday, March 17, 2023, in Austin, Texas. American rapper Macklemore said Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, he canceled an upcoming October concert in Dubai over the United Arab Emirates' "role ... in the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis" stemming from the war gripping Sudan through its reported support of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces there. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, File)

American rapper Macklemore says he canceled Dubai show over UAE arming Sudan paramilitary forces

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo taken and released by the semiofficial Fars News Agency, a Noor missile is launched from the coast to the sea during Iranian naval maneuvers in the Oman Sea, near the port town of Bandar Jask, Iran on May 11, 2010. Yemen's Houthi rebels likely fired an Iranian-made anti-ship cruise missile at a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea in December, an assault that now provides a public evidence-based link between the ongoing rebel campaign against shipping and Tehran, the U.S. military said Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Hossein Zohrevand/Fars News Agency, File)

Yemen Houthi rebels fired Iranian missile at Norwegian-flagged ship, debris analyzed by U.S. shows

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are brought to a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

U.S. announces $100M additional aid for Palestinians

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In this photograph released by the U.S. Navy, the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is seen July 4, 2024, in the South China Sea. The Roosevelt is replacing the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Navy's campaign against attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. (Seaman Ryan Holloway/U.S. Navy, via AP)

A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targets a ship transiting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait

By Michael Wakin - Associated Press

FILE - A man wearing a keffiyeh looks at the U.S. Capitol during a pro-Palestinian rally, on May 18, 2024, on the National Mall in Washington. At the graduation ceremony of New York University Abu Dhabi in May, 2024, a student wearing the traditional Palestinian black-and-white keffiyeh scarf shouted “Free Palestine!” as he crossed the stage to receive his diploma, witnesses say. Days later, he reportedly was deported from the United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

University student who yelled ‘Free Palestine’ reportedly deported as UAE weighs Israel-Hamas war

By Malak Harb - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Arab states fume as Gaza fighting puts breakthrough with Israel on ice

By Hana Azmi Elatrash and Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

A man walks along a road barrier among floodwater caused by heavy rain on Sheikh Zayed Road highway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, April 18, 2024. The United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Thursday from the heaviest rain the desert nation has ever recorded, a deluge that flooded out Dubai International Airport and disrupted flights through the world's busiest airfield for international travel. (AP Photo/Christopher Pike)

United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ever hits desert nation

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Vehicles sit abandoned in floodwater covering a major road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Heavy thunderstorms lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, dumping over a year and a half's worth of rain on the desert city-state of Dubai in the span of hours as it flooded out portions of major highways and its international airport. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Storm dumps record rain across the desert nation of UAE and floods the Dubai airport

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

This image made from a video provided to The Associated Press by a Mideast defense official shows a helicopter raid targeting a vessel near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, April 13, 2024. A video seen by The Associated Press shows commandos raiding a ship near the Strait of Hormuz by helicopter Saturday, an attack a Mideast defense official attributed to Iran amid wider tensions between Tehran and the West. The Mideast defense official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. (AP Photo)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with West

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Emirati President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their talks at Qasr Al Watan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The UAE: A beacon of enlightened governance

By S. Rob Sobhani

This satellite photo captured by Planet Labs PBC shows the construction of an airstrip on Abd al-Kuri Island, Yemen, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. As Yemen's Houthi rebels continue to target ships in a vital Mideast waterway, satellite pictures analyzed by The Associated Press show what appears to be a new airstrip being built at an entrance to that crucial maritime route. No country has claimed publicly the active construction taking place this month on Abd al-Kuri Island, a barren stretch of land rising out of the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. However, satellite images shot for the AP appear to show workers have laid out "I LOVE UAE" next to the runway, an abbreviation for the United Arab Emirates. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

An airstrip is being built on a Yemeni island during the ongoing war, with ‘I LOVE UAE’ next to it

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, center, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaks in front of civic and faith leaders outside City Hall, Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Los Angeles. A U.S. Congress-mandated group cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia over officials in the kingdom ordering a Jewish rabbi to remove his kippah in public, highlighting the religious tensions still present in the wider Middle East. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

U.S.-mandated religious freedom group ends Saudi trip early after rabbi ordered to remove his kippah

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

This black-and-white image released by the U.S. military's Central Command shows the fire aboard the bulk carrier True Confidence after a missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. A missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday killed three of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel, the U.S. military said. It was the first fatal strike in a campaign of assaults by the Iranian-backed group over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan smiles while posing for a photo prior to his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan made a surprise visit on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, to Qatar as it is hosting the World Cup — his first since leading a yearslong four-nation boycott of Doha over a political dispute that poisoned regional relations. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

UAE once again tries to launder its image

By Michelle Gulino

Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, in Somalia on Dec. 8, 2008. The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claimed an attack that killed three Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer on a training mission at a military base in the Somali capital, authorities said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Al-Shabab claims attack in Somali capital that kills 4 Emirati troops and 1 Bahraini officer

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this image provided by the UK Ministry of Defence taken on Thursday Jan. 11, 2024 shows an RAF Typhoon aircraft taking off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, for a mission to strike targets in Yemen. The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen late on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. (Sgt Lee Goddard, UK Ministry of Defence via AP)

Houthi rebels vow fierce retaliation after American and British strikes against them

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this image provided by the UK Ministry of Defence taken on Thursday Jan. 11, 2024 shows an RAF Typhoon aircraft taking off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, for a mission to strike targets in Yemen. The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen late on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. (Sgt Lee Goddard, UK Ministry of Defence via AP)

Houthi rebels vow fierce retaliation after American and British strikes against them

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press