UAE nation branding encounters early headwinds
The UAE’s slickly managed reputation has lately taken hits for well-publicized offenses including human rights abuses and spying.
The UAE’s slickly managed reputation has lately taken hits for well-publicized offenses including human rights abuses and spying.
The cable news giant is an ‘official broadcaster’ of an upcoming UAE state-run, six-month ‘expo’ that is seemingly meant to burnish its global image.
The Emiratis continue their illicit campaigns undermining American democracy without consequence.
While it’s still unclear how Saudi Arabia and the UAE will respond, Qatar may take on a mediator role.
Major Emirati-funded DC policy organizations have said remarkably little about the country’s illicit influence.
Thomas Barrack’s links to the GOP go well beyond Donald Trump.
Israel has improved its relationship with the UAE, but what about other Gulf countries?
Despite recent conciliatory rhetoric, the roots of their antagonism will be difficult to untangle.
Moscow’s ability to build relationships with US regional allies is raising flags with the Biden administration.
Because the Houthis are currently on the offensive, it will be difficult for the U.S. leadership to incentivize them to lay down their arms.
Airwars releases massive report today charting nine months of bombing by Gaddafi forces, the US-led coalition and rebels
Riyadh has delayed and prevented food, medicine, and fuel from getting into the war-torn country since 2015.
US arms sales that prop up the war in Yemen are just the tip of the iceberg.
The Emirates’ drawdown from its base in Eritrea comes as Biden is re-evaluating the U.S. commitment to the War in Yemen.
A UN report says the Blackwater founder violated arms embargoes by sending weapons and men to aid militia chief Gen. Khalifa Heftar.
Emboldened, the EU parliament passed measures that go way farther than even the Biden administration has gone.
The pending $23 billion deal to the Emirates threaten to fuel conflict in Yemen and Libya and reward bad behavior.
This war is much older than the U.S. or even Saudi involvement in it. Biden’s new envoy has his work cut out for him.
There must be a commitment to bringing the insurgents to the table — and stopping foreign support for warring parties.
Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE want a seat at the table but their participation will only muddy the waters.
US will no longer support ‘offensive’ operations, but that won’t be enough to end the war.