United Arab Emirates

This series of photos shows a Libyan LNA rebel carrying a high-powered Israel rifle. (Photo: al-Araby)
Khalifa Haftar, the military commander who controls the east of the Libya, has reportedly been receiving Israeli military aid following meetings with Israeli intelligence that were allegedly mediated by the United Arab Emirates.

(MEE) — The UAE bought the silence of an American arms dealer who was allegedly tortured by Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, during the 1980s, according to leaked emails obtained by Middle East Eye.

Light is seen through the debris at ground zero on September 12, 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks.(AP/Baldwin)
The families of hundreds of people killed in the 9/11 attacks are considering adding the United Arab Emirates as a defendant to a legal case against Saudi Arabia for its roles in the outrage, Middle East Eye can reveal.
Nearly 3,000 people died when hijacked airplanes crashed into New York’s World Trade Centre, the Pentagon building and a Pennsylvania field in September 2001.

(MEE) — A former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia has said the kingdom has been funding mosques across Europe that promote an “extremist” version of Islam, the Guardian has reported.

President Donald Trump welcomes Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the White House in Washington,, May 15, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh)
The Crown Prince of the UAE Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan asked the Americans to bomb the headquarters of Al Jazeera during the US war in Afghanistan, Arabi21.com revealed yesterday.
According to the document bin Zayed spoke about a meeting between his father and the former Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani.

Yousef Al Otaiba, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America, left, and Susan Rice, National Security Adviser, talk in the State Dining Room of the White House, July 25, 2013. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

It has been reported that U.S. forces have interrogated prisoners in secret prisons in Yemen, many of which are run by the United Arab Emirates, a member of the Saudi-led coalition that is waging war in the country. Acts of torture are said to have taken place in the prisons.

A former detainee shows how he was kept in handcuffs and leg shackles while held in a secret prison at Riyan airport in the Yemeni city of Mukalla in this May 11, 2017 photo.(AP/Maad El Zikry)

A new investigation reveals the presence of clandestine prisons in the south of Yemen, run by the United Arab Emirates with the help of American interrogators.

There is trouble in oil paradise. It seems that all the elements of an already explosive geopolitical concoction are getting vigorously stirred.