Tag: United Arab Emirates

John Bolton, national security advisor, listens during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. U.S., on Thursday, May 17, 2018. The White House said the two leaders will be discussing the upcoming NATO Summit in July.

John Bolton, Iran’s foreign minister grapple over regime change in back-to-back interviews

Zach Halaschak · April 28, 2019 3:06 pm

In this April 15, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House in Washington. Trump on Tuesday vetoed a bill passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.

Beltway Confidential

Trump had a chance at making history, but he vetoed it

Daniel DePetris · April 17, 2019 4:33 pm

Sudanese celebrate after officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 11, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Sudan's coup is no silver bullet

Tom Rogan · April 11, 2019 9:20 pm

In this Jan. 29, 2019 photo, the logos of Huawei are displayed at its retail shop window reflecting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing.

National Security

UAE telecom company partners with Huawei in blow to Trump administration

Daniel Jativa · February 26, 2019 4:44 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, talk to the press.

At Pompeo’s Warsaw summit, Netanyahu jokes Arab leaders have ‘dethroned’ him as chief Iran hawk

Joel Gehrke · February 14, 2019 11:56 pm

An armored truck sits on display on the Oshkosh Corp. exhibition stand during the 15th Dubai Air Show at Dubai World Central (DWC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Beltway Confidential

The US sold weapons that ended up in terrorists’ hands, and Congress shrugs

Daniel DePetris · February 6, 2019 7:15 pm

A man walks into the Center for American Progress, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, at their office in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Top liberal think tank suddenly distressed by all that money it took from a foreign government

Becket Adams · January 25, 2019 4:47 pm

In this 2017 photo released by the Kuwait News Agency, retired U.S. Gen. Anthony Zinni, centre left, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Timothy Lenderking met with Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled al-Jarallah, centre right, in Kuwait.

Beltway Confidential

Anthony Zinni’s resignation is no obvious rebuke to Trump

Tom Rogan · January 8, 2019 7:25 pm

$In this Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, photograph, a photographer changes his lens by a rusting Soviet-era tank near Mukalla, Yemen, at an airport now serving as a military base for the United Arab Emirates. The port city of Mukalla, once held by al Qaida, shows how fractious Yemen is and will remain even if the Saudi-led war in the country ends in an uneasy peace for the Arab world's poorest nation.$ Beltway Confidential

Trump can end Obama-era failures in Yemen

Daniel DePetris · December 3, 2018 6:37 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to members of the media after a closed door meeting with Senators about Saudi Arabia at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Ending US support for Saudi Arabia would make things much worse in Yemen

Tom Rogan · November 28, 2018 9:38 pm

This undated family handout photo shows Matthew Hedges with his wife Daniela Tejada. The family of a British academic jailed in the United Arab Emirates on spying allegations says he's been sentenced to life in prison. Matthew Hedges, a 31-year-old PhD student in Middle Eastern Studies at Durham University, was arrested at Dubai Airport on May 5, 2018. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt expressed shock at the verdict Wednesday Nov. 21, 2018 and has travelled to the UAE to make representations on his behalf.

Beltway Confidential

Trump should pressure Saudi Arabia and the UAE to release Matthew Hedges

Tom Rogan · November 22, 2018 5:31 pm

Donald Trump Jr. gets up to speak at a global business summit in New Delhi, India, in February 2018.

Donald Trump Jr’s trip to India cost taxpayers $100K

Maria Biery · November 15, 2018 7:49 pm