United Arab Emirates

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Jan. 24 called for boosting security cooperation with the Gulf states as the Western military alliance opened its first office in the region.

The countryside real estate market in Greece seems to be recovering with the main investors come from abroad. Western Europeans, Russians, Chinese, Americans, Lebanese, Turks, Egyptians and investors from the UAE are looking for real estate opportunities in Greece.

On Jan. 11, 2017, Intelligence Online — a professional journal covering the world’s intelligence services — revealed that the pilots of Air Tractor attack planes flying from Al Khadim air base in Libya are private contractors working for Erik Prince, the founder of the company formerly known as Blackwater.

Military leaders from 14 countries on Jan. 15 agreed to support Turkey's ongoing Euphrates Shield operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Syria. 

Five United Arab Emirates officials were among 56 people killed in a string of bombings across Afghan cities, authorities said Jan. 11, as Taliban militants step up a deadly winter campaign of violence.

The United Kingdom scolded U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for describing the Israeli government as the "most right-wing in Israeli history," a move that aligns British Prime Minister Theresa May more closely with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. 

Turkey's foreign trade deficit regressed to $4.11 billion in November with a 4.1 percent decline compared to the same month of 2015, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) showed on Dec. 30. 

The country's trade gap declined to $50.4 billion in the first 11 months of the year, with an around 12 percent of drop compared to the same period of 2015, according to TÜİK data. 

Bulgaria has comfortably preferred to leave export of military output to third countries "unregulated," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said.

And "we are not talking about pins and needles," but lethal products that can be used in any armed conflict in the world, Zakharova has added at a press briefing in Moscow.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic spoke with Mukl Holding Chairman Shaji Ul Mulk in Abu Dhabi Thursday to discuss cooperation on investments, including a 20 mln dollar investment that would create 100 new jobs at the company's Serbian plant.

ABU DHABI - Serbia will continue the successful cooperation with the United Arab Emirates, which will last for a long time to come, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said in Abu Dhabi Thursday at the opening of the Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival, organised by the UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs and the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation.