An emirate would differ from the Islamic State caliphate in the scale of its ambition, in that a Nusra emirate would not claim to be a government for all the world's Muslims.
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The emirate offered $15 billion to help stabilize Turkey's finances.
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The emirate gives out multi-million dollar prizes at prestigious competitions.
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The emirate is trying to diversify its economy away of oil.
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For instance, the Emirate recently named a minister of artificial intelligence.
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Some speculate that Ms. Yingluck has joined him in the emirate.
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Dubai-based operator Ecocoast has two WasteShark drones in the emirate.
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On June 9th Mr Trump called the emirate a sponsor of terrorism.
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The Emirate derives substantial support from its membership of the UAE federation.
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The emirate derives substantial support from its membership of the UAE federation.
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Its cultivation is negotiable in sharia, but the Islamic Emirate banned it.
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Qataris bought over $500 million of property in the emirate last year.
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The Emirate has committed to switching to 75% clean energy use by 2050.
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"We want a peace deal, but not one at the cost to our dignity, or that will bring back the emirate," he said, referring to a Taliban demand that any post-peace government be an Islamic emirate rather than a republic.
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Like most of its regional neighbours, the emirate is heavily reliant on oil revenue.
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Revenues from future exports will not turn the country into a flashy Gulf emirate.
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ENOC is wholly owned by the government of Dubai, an emirate in the UAE.
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The emirate has tried to play both sides in many of the region's conflicts.
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Abu Dhabi Ports Co manages Kizad as well as the ports in the emirate.
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The emirate is home to International Petroleum Investment Co. (IPIC), which fully owns Cepsa.
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Now, it's a symbol of excess as the emirate grapples with a sluggish market.
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Abu Dhabi is the capital and largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates federation.
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The Taliban's ambitions for an Islamic emirate, a theocratic totalitarian government, have not changed.
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"The goal all along is to resurrect the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," he said.
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The emirate has looked into consolidating its holdings and retrenching from some overseas businesses.
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The office, in Dubai's financial free zone, would mainly focus on business within the emirate.
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That suggests the airline's main function: to put the tiny emirate on the world stage.
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Prince Muhammad, by contrast, has turned his emirate into an oasis of inter-faith dialogue.
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In January the oil company of Sharjah, another emirate, awarded Eni concessions in three areas.
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The move is the latest sign of consolidation of state-controlled entities in the emirate.
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Dubai, the most commercially driven emirate within the UAE, has traded with Iran for decades.
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By 2020, the emirate aims to attract 500,000 medical tourists, up from 325,000 in 2016.
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Massive fire gutted residential towers in the emirate of Ajman, north of Dubai, #UAE. pic.twitter.
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It was flying to Istanbul from the Emirate of Sharjah, not from Istanbul to Sharjah.
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The Taliban were extending their so-called emirate, under which they tax residents, including Hazaras.
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The emirate is launching a financial free zone, Abu Dhabi Global Market, to attract foreign investment.
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In March, a fire broke out at a residential tower in the nearby Emirate of Ajman.
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The ship is now being towed towards the offshore part of Fujairah emirate, the company said.
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But heavyweight Emaar Properties the largest developer in the emirate fell 2.5%, weighing on the index.
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Abu Dhabi Bank, the largest lender in the emirate, and Aldar Properties each added 0.9 percent.
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The emirate is starting a financial free zone, Abu Dhabi Global Market, to attract foreign investment.
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Residential prices in the emirate of 3 million have fallen by some 15 percent since 2014.
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The emirate has also leveraged its status as an underdog to inspire its native-born population.
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The ship is now being towed toward the offshore part of Fujairah emirate, the company said.
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"We reject all such rumors and unequivocally state that the esteemed leader of the Islamic Emirate has not authorized anyone to participate in this meeting, and neither has the Leadership Council of Islamic Emirate decided to partake in it," the Taliban said, using another name for itself.
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So copious are Gulf investments in London that Britain's capital is the "eighth emirate", says Mr Johnson.
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"People will accept concessions, but they are not going to accept an emirate," says one Western official.
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New dividend, loan and guarantee policies will allow the emirate to more efficiently use its fiscal resources.
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Now Turkey, a NATO ally, says it could deploy troops to Qatar in support of the emirate.
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The emirate had guaranteed $3.5 billion of 1MDB's bonds, but 1MDB missed a payment of $1.1 billion.
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In recent years, the emirate has built several contemporary art galleries including Artspace and the Mottahedan Projects.
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"The Islamic Emirate is seriously concerned that the enemy circles will misuse your name," the statement said.
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Most also recognize that any government emerging from a peace process could not replicate the Islamic Emirate.
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Graffiti on a nearby wall read, "Long live the Islamic Emirate" — the Taliban's name for their movement.
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He said there would be no interruptions on approved capital expenditure and development projects in the emirate.
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Emirate-level governments, especially in Dubai, strongly support digital innovation agendas and the incorporation of advanced technologies.
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It must not be confused with the Taliban's implied system of some sort of an Islamic emirate.
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NanoRacks announced last week that it will be opening an office in Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate.
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Uber's services have been suspended in the emirate since August in an apparent dispute with authorities there.
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Sharjah International Airport is roughly 15 miles north of Dubai International Airport, in the UAE's Sharjah emirate.
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The U.A.E. has reported that more than 30,000 buildings in the Emirate are constructed with potentially dangerous siding.
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Abu Dhabi Terminals operates and manages a 30-year concession at Khalifa Port Container Terminal in the emirate.
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A proposed supertall building in Dubai will use the fingerprint of the Emirate ruler to make its mark.
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Late last year the Aldar bought an office tower in the emirate for 658 million dirhams ($179 million).
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In dramatic fashion, nine nations have moved to indefinitely sever ties with the gas-rich emirate of Qatar.
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For example, the emirate supports al-Qaeda affiliates such as the al Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham.
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There is talk that al-Qaeda may soon declare an Islamic "emirate" (one notch down from a caliphate).
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These three Ts underscore a strategic diversification that has created an oil-independent economy in the thriving emirate.
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"It would be ironic for Al Qaeda to declare an emirate while there's a caliphate that it rejects."
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The Saudi-led coalition took its action against Qatar after the emirate restored diplomatic relations with neighboring Iran.
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The Louvre Abu Dhabi, a collaboration between the iconic French museum and the Emirate, opened earlier in November.
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Thousands of miles away from Washington, D.C., something miraculous occurred in the small Gulf Arab emirate of Qatar.
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The emirate is locked in a dispute with neighboring countries who have curtailed airspace rights over the nation.
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But the Taliban, which calls itself the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, said last week it would not participate.
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ADNOC is the state-run oil company of Abu Dhabi, the wealthiest emirate in the United Arab Emirates.
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The network has become a national emblem for the emirate, making the piracy of its broadcasts especially humiliating.
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In recent years, millions of tourists and expats have flocked to the country, especially to its luxurious emirate Dubai.
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Uber is also in talks with the emirate city to publicly demonstrate its own flying taxi service in 2020.
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The latest Sharjah Biennial features over 50 international artists, many of whom have created impressive installations in the Emirate.
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The emirate has been looking at ways to consolidate its banks following the collapse in the price of oil.
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Many art spaces in Sharjah are designed in the Islamic architectural style that the emirate favors for official buildings.
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Neighboring emirate Dubai, for example, recently issued a warning about ICOs and said that it does not regulate them.
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Qatar controversially secured rights to the 2022 World Cup amid bribery accusations that the tiny, gas-rich emirate denies.
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Al-Jazeera is not a paragon of free speech inside the emirate where the royal family is beyond critique.
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Charlene was in the emirate as a sports ambassador to attend an F1 race and an international rugby tournament.
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He thanked the officials for their services but said the emirate needed a new generation of leadership going forward.
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The incident followed last month's sabotage attacks on vessels off the Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs.
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But the move has awakened rare displays of nationalism in the tiny emirate, the military build-up being one example.
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Under a government-run scheme, farmers in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah drop off camel excrement at collection stations.
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Al Muhairi served as a managing director at the Abu Dhabi executive Council, the top policymaking body in the emirate.
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She was in the Emirate in October at a blockchain event attended by hundreds of people working on blockchain applications.
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Nusra would seek to be the decisive power in any new "Islamic emirate" established in rebel-held areas of Syria.
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The emirate has long been linked with the technology, with one route to Fujairah and another to Abu Dhabi mooted.
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Contained to the UAE, a roll out would ameliorate inter-emirate travel, but if expanded, the effects could be profound.
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Elsewhere in the emirate, the region's top center for gold trade, bullion is playing a new role in financial engineering.
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Large volumes of liquefied natural gas, an increasingly important fuel, follow the same route from the tiny emirate of Qatar.
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Graffiti painted on the mud walls declared an "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" and listed the names of those newly martyred.
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First Abu Dhabi Bank, the largest lender in the emirate, was up 0.5 percent and Aldar Properties rose 1.4 percent.
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Such move may require staging the event beyond the borders of Qatar, a gas-rich emirate that is smaller than Connecticut.
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Last week, the banks denied they were in merger talks after a news report said the emirate was considering combining them.
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LAST month the emirate of Abu Dhabi held the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX), the Middle East's largest arms fair.
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The incident followed last month's nearby sabotage attacks on vessels off the Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs.
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DP World is the company's biggest investor, and Virgin Hyperloop One's fate hinges on getting a green light from the Emirate.
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Pulling forces home means the U.A.E.'s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Zayad, can better defend his Gulf emirate.
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Funds raised through the debt sale will be used by Islamic endowments selected by the government of the emirate of Sharjah.
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The emirate launched a 50 billion dirham ($13.6 billion) stimulus fund, Ghadan 21, in September last year to accelerate economic growth.
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The emirate does not need its own foreign exchange reserves, and UAE support compensates for the lack of external sector data.
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Al Mamzar Beach Park, where smart technology has been widely implemented, is located in what emirate of the United Arab Emirates?
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To accelerate economic growth, the emirate launched a 50 billion dirham ($13.6 billion) stimulus fund, Ghadan 21, in September last year.
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Qatar's leaving OPEC isn't a blow to the cartel's power, per se: The emirate is one of the cartel's smallest members.
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An international bond would be a "marketing exercise" for the emirate, said one of the sources, ahead of the global fair.
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The Abu Dhabi-based airline's sandy paint scheme features multi-colored geometric shapes representing the shifting desert dunes surround the emirate.
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Qatar tries to paint itself as a victim where criticism of the emirate is portrayed as harming Al-Jazeera's free speech.
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How can the Taliban and the Afghan government, the Islamic Emirate and the Islamic Republic, come together to jointly govern Afghanistan?
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Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic and trade relations with the emirate almost six months ago.
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Unfortunately, the Taliban has not given up on someday reacquiring its "Islamic Emirate," nor has it publicly sought a negotiated settlement.
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As Routes Online reports, this will increase Emirate flights to 615 seats per plane instead of the traditional 489 with first class.
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The buildings, along with neighboring towers in the Emirate of Ajman, were evacuated without incident, and the blaze has now been extinguished.
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Mansour was determined to sustain the jihad and pursue the dream of re-establishing Islamic Emirate by force of arms and attrition.
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"The recruitment of children in the ranks of Islamic Emirate is strictly prohibited," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said in a statement.
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Mr Qubaisi comes from an influential family in the emirate said to be linked to the ruling al-Nahyan family by marriage.
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Within the emirate, Dubai Holding operates a wide range of business parks in addition to assets in tourism, telecommunications and other sectors.
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The Emirate has no need for its own foreign exchange reserves, and UAE support compensates for the lack of external sector data.
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The emirate has also seen assassinations of political figures in recent years, including a senior Hamas official and a Chechen rebel leader.
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While the borders of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain, shrank over the centuries, the Emirate of Granada was not toppled until 1492.
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LONDON, Oct 2 (IFR) - The Emirate of Abu Dhabi has begun marketing a triple-tranche US dollar bond, according to a lead.
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In 2011, in the midst of the Arab Spring, Mr. Mansoor was arrested with four others on charges of insulting Emirate rulers.
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But the Taliban, which calls itself the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, denied it would be participating in any upcoming talks in Islamabad.
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The Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest of the seven emirates, is the UAE's federal capital, and home to two million residents.
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The emirate does not have a sovereign credit rating, so analysts often look at state firms as indicators of its financial health.
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War in Yemen, a dispute with the Gulf emirate of Qatar and growing tension with Iran is a concern to investors too.
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Consequently, the emirate has time to adjust its public finances to an expected 41% drop in oil revenue between 2014 and 2016.
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FIFA last month awarded the 2026 competition hosting rights to the United States, Canada and Mexico, after Gulf emirate Qatar in 2022.
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Lenders in the emirate extended loans worth $66 billion to Dubai's real estate sector last year, according to the UAE Banks Federation.
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Representatives for Brookfield and Qatar said the emirate wasn't involved, and Brookfield is an established real-estate name in its own right.
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Even if the emirate ramps up supplies to the degree cited, those supplies would be heading into a much less welcoming market.
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EZDubai will be located in the south of the emirate near industrial and residential developments and Dubai's second airport, Al Maktoum International.
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For instance, it offers targeted investments and government contracts to top start-ups worldwide to lure fast-growth companies to the emirate.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — The princess known as Sheikha Latifa had not left Dubai, the glittering emirate ruled by her father, in 1003 years.
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The UAE, particularly its most commercially prominent emirate Dubai, is one of the main places where wealthy Saudis park their money abroad.
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But Qataris now avoid it because of politics: Egypt was one of four countries to impose an embargo on the emirate in 2017.
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This year, more than 8,500 units are expected to be delivered in the oil rich emirate, the most since 2013, Knight Frank said.
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Discussions centered on "the ongoing peace process, civilian casualties and humanitarian aid in areas of the Islamic Emirate," he said in a statement.
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With perhaps 300,000 nationals—the smallest indigenous population in the GCC—it is the richest emirate per head because of its vast gasfields.
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The boycott has caused economic pain across the Gulf, but so far has not forced the gas-rich emirate to make any concessions.
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Sajwani also noted Dubai's gains from the collapse of Somalia in the 1990s, during which the emirate attracted significant Somali business and trade.
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The emirate is also counting on a boost from hosting the World Expo 2020, which it hopes will attract 11 million foreign visitors.
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The Taliban claim responsibility for the bombing, wrote Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban's self-declared Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, via email.
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"The Islamic Emirate shall pay no heed to such futile efforts and diplomatic obstructions being created for the intra-Afghan dialogue," he said.
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At least three of those targeted were arrested shortly after the surveillance began; another was later convicted of insulting Emirate rulers in absentia.
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) real estate developer Aldar Properties was founded in 2005 and is now among the largest developers in the emirate.
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And on Sunday four ships, including two Saudi tankers, were damaged off the coast of the UAE emirate of Fujairah, a bunkering hub.
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But the Taliban, which calls itself the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, publicly denied they would be participating in any upcoming talks in Islamabad.
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The Dubai index jumped 1.4 percent, continuing its rally since the emirate announced a series of initiatives to reduce corporate costs and stimulate growth.
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"By this enormous supply of leisure activities, the emirate expresses the idea that everything is possible in Dubai, that the sky is the limit."
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Dubai Airports owns and manages the operation and development of both of airports in the emirate — Dubai International (DXB) and Dubai World Central (DWC).
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The emirate now ranks 10th in the world among international financial hubs and such legal innovation will also be a key opportunity for Neom.
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The Taliban would take a majority of the country by force within two years, establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Kabul in 93.
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His comments came after the United Arab Emirates reported four commercial vessels had been sabotaged near Fujairah emirate just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
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They got it under the following conditions: that the Taliban would not be referred to as the Islamic Emirate, an alternative government of Afghanistan.
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An official at the department of finance in Sharjah, the third largest emirate of seven in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), declined to comment.
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Sharjah's government budget is small relative to GDP, largely because the UAE federal budget covers a large share of public services in the emirate.
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The group had occupied the city since April, 2015, when it declared Mukalla the capital of its Islamic Emirate amid Yemen's chaotic civil war.
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Dana, which is based in Sharjah, started legal proceedings in the emirate last month to seek a declaration on the lawfulness of the sukuk.
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Boko Haram's six-year campaign to set up an Islamic emirate in northeastern Nigeria has killed some 15,000 people, according to the U.S. military.
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Al-Khalidi was quoted as saying that investigators tracked down the gang to an apartment in the emirate of Ajman and arrested three suspects.
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Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, said Wednesday's explosion had "nothing to do with the Mujahedeen of Islamic Emirate," as the Taliban call themselves.
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"The Islamic Emirate seeks the establishment of a sovereign, Islamic and inclusive government acceptable to all Afghans in our beloved homeland," the message said.
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The SPC also announced a rise in oil and gas reserves as well as new unconventional gas discoveries in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
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And that was not the only hurdle Lari faced when she started figure skating 10 years ago in her home emirate of Abu Dhabi.
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The ratings agency earlier this year predicted property prices in the emirate could decline by 10 to 15 percent over the next two years.
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Our correspondent explored how the tiny emirate is dealing with a punishing boycott by its neighbors that is meant to rein in its ambitions.
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"The Islamic Emirate has done its best to reduce civilian casualty figures to zero," he said, referring to the Taliban's name for their movement.
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One vet credited the rescues in Somaliland, tighter controls at the borders in one emirate, and more rigorous e-commerce policing for the drop.
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For more than 13 years, Mr. Downs, 62, a geophysicist from Arkansas, has been incarcerated in Qatar, a tiny but affluent Persian Gulf emirate.
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Qatari officials have repeatedly denied supporting terrorist groups and said the emirate works closely with Western security agencies to crack down on terrorist financing.
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A fourth source said it would make sense for the emirate to tap different pools of liquidity after its latest $10 billion jumbo bond.
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So he proposes Palestinian autonomy for seven non-contiguous emirates in major Arab cities, as well as Gaza, which he considers already an emirate.
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But Qatar has withstood the embargo, not least because Turkey has offered support through trade and a garrison of Turkish troops in the emirate.
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Nor could she travel, even to the next-door emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of seven city-states making up the United Arab Emirates.
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The militants, who calls themselves the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, maintain their fight is against foreign forces and the foreign-backed government, not ordinary Afghans.
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Relations were further strained by Ankara's support for Qatar after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt imposed sanctions on the Gulf emirate in June.
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The blasts, south of the Strait of Hormuz, followed last month's attacks on vessels off the Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs.
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The Amazon deal was welcomed by the Dubai government, which is increasingly focusing on technology, as the emirate expands its retail footprint in the region.
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He emerged as one of Abu Dhabi's most active investors over the past decade, as the oil-rich emirate went on a corporate buying spree.
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Dubai on Monday launched its first-ever investment week, held under the theme "Investing in Future Transformations" as the emirate celebrated record foreign fund inflows.
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The oil-rich emirate and the Indian Ocean island already have transport ties; most notably, Etihad Airways owns a 40 percent stake in Air Seychelles.
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The move has triggered interest in other Abu Dhabi lenders as investors speculate potential targets that may come from an efficiency drive in the emirate.
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In 2014, Qatar Airways defended policies on pregnancy and marriage for cabin crew after coming under fire over working conditions in the conservative Gulf emirate.
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He declined to speculate about who was behind the attack near Fujairah emirate while the investigation was underway and due to be completed within days.
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If you choose to travel to a repressive emirate such as Dubai, don't be surprised if you are a bit repressed when you get there.
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The emirate has made a name for itself as a tech start-up hub and appointed a Minister for the Future to drive tech initiatives.
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Now Al Qaeda's top leadership is looking to stanch its losses in Pakistan and score a propaganda coup in Syria by establishing a formal emirate.
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The fifth largest lender in the emirate by assets reported a net profit of 251 million dirhams ($68.3 million) in the three months to Dec.
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Dubai Holding, owned by the ruler of the emirate, is among a group of state-linked companies trying to recover from a 2009 property crash.
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Qatar has been under pressure for months, after Saudi Arabia and some allies imposed sanctions on the emirate over its allegedly soft line on terrorism.
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Some of Dana's shareholders obtained an injunction in a court in the emirate of Sharjah preventing the company from taking part in the London hearings.
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But property prices in the emirate may decline 10 to 15 percent over the next two years, S&P Global Ratings said earlier this year.
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But he also ordered Dana to cancel an injunction in a court in the emirate of Sharjah and seek a stay of its proceedings there.
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British Airways and Emirate Airlines are among the carriers unable to land at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos and were instead rerouted to Ghana.
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The fifth largest lender in the emirate by assets reported a net profit of 410 million dirhams ($111.7 million) in the three months to Sept.
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Registered as an offshore company in the UAE emirate Ajman, 17 Black opened accounts at Noor Bank in 2015, according to correspondence seen by Reuters.
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S&P said in its statement on Friday that it expects the emirate to fund the second part of the Invest Bank acquisition this year.
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In 2015 Mukalla was overrun by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), seeking to carve out an emirate far from the battlefields to the West.
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Flydubai's CEO Ghaith al-Ghaith told a news conference in the Gulf Arab emirate that it was "too early" to determine the cause of the crash.
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"Ever since the launch of our strategy in 2013, we've witnessed the local growth of the Islamic economy in the Emirate of Dubai," Al Awar added.
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Flydubai's CEO Ghaith al-Ghaith told a press conference in the Gulf Arab emirate that it was "too early" to determine the cause of the crash.
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The blasts, south of the Strait of Hormuz, followed last month's sabotage attacks on vessels off the Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs.
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Falcon owner IPIC is currently merging with fellow Abu Dhabi-owned investment fund Mubadala, as the emirate aims to consolidate in response to lower oil prices.
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Qatar, the main sponsor of Hamas, is under embargo by Egypt and three of its Gulf neighbours, which want the emirate to cut ties with Islamists.
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Since the trade boycott began, Dubai officials have shied away from any suggestion that the rift is having a negative impact on business in the emirate.
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Located along key trade routes between East and West, the emirate has maritime access to the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean via its Persian Gulf coastline.
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The emirate has opened branches of American universities and a "Church City"—unthinkable in Saudi Arabia—where priests count their congregations of migrant workers in thousands.
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As Dubai gears up to host next year's World Expo, we're inquiring what the emirate plans to do with its new construction after the fair ends.
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That could make foreign investment in Dubai more attractive and, by helping foreigners plan on long-term residence in the emirate, encourage them to buy homes.
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Residents in the northern emirate of Ras Al Khaimah who were affected by the floods will receive compensation, the National newspaper said in a separate report.
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With hundreds of billions of dollars in its sovereign wealth fund, the emirate could draw down its reserves to sustain current levels of spending for decades.
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Eddie Huang's travel series takes him to the luxurious emirate of Dubai, and a political drama recounts one British family's rallying cry against the Iraq war.
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But Qatar is now locked in a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations that have imposed an air and sea blockade on the emirate.
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Kuwait, hosting the conferences this week, has a deep interest in seeing a stable Iraq, especially after Baghdad's 1990 invasion of their small, oil-rich emirate.
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Funeral prayers were held for Sheikh Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi on Wednesday as the emirate announced three days of mourning, with flags flying at half staff.
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Close integration in the UAE economy has allowed the emirate to focus on its development strategy and build a reasonably diversified economy dominated by manufacturing and services.
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The group had promised not to fly its white flag or call itself the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", the name it used when it ruled the country.
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However, it currently has capacity of only 31 million gallons per day (mgpd) of desalinated water, from four plants in the northern emirate of Ras al Khaimah.
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Prince Muhammad is also embroiled in a diplomatic assault on Qatar, which was meant to force the gas-rich emirate to drop its support for Islamist groups.
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Aster is about to inaugurate one hospital in the emirate of Sharjah and one in Qatar, and is working on six more hospital projects in the Gulf.
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On New Year's Eve, a blaze hit a Dubai hotel and in February 2015 there was a fire at a 79-storey residential tower in the emirate.
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Dr. Neil K. Aggarwal, a cultural psychologist and author of The Taliban's Virtual Emirate, noted that the Taliban also earns money through the advertisements on its websites.
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The emirate is home to the world's second-largest sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which is estimated to have assets of more than $800bn.
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They are the muscle and backbone of plans to develop the emirate into a global player in everything from finance and energy to sports and the arts.
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HTS's raison d'etre is to topple the Assad regime and establish an Islamic emirate in Syria, according to the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford.
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ADIA manages the reserves of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates and which produces about 3 percent of the world's oil output.
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Kardashian concluded a brief stay in the Gulf Arab emirate last weekend, shopping at the sprawling Mall of the Emirates and attending a masterclass there on makeup.
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"Up to five thousand (5,000) prisoners of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will be released," while the insurgents would free up to 1,000 prisoners, the document says.
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After announcing his candidacy from self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirate, the former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik was returned to Cairo by Emirati authorities.
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Both Brookfield and the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign fund of the oil-rich Middle Eastern emirate, said the Investment Authority had no knowledge of the deal.
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Then, finally, is the curiosity of a Saudi heir doling out close to a half-billion dollars on a painting for a museum in a neighboring emirate.
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The Emirate statement listed numerous condolences from the UAE leadership, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and regional heads of states including Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
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A court in the emirate of Sharjah, where Dana is headquartered, issued an order earlier this month prohibiting the company from withdrawing its legal efforts in the UAE.
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A court in the emirate of Sharjah held its first hearing of the case on Tuesday and the judge then decided to reserve his judgment, the source said.
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However, the emirate is suffering a property downturn and a slowdown in the retail sector as it gears up to host the World Expo trade fair in 2020.
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The appointment of American-educated Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani as prime minister of Qatar reinforces the importance to the United States of the desert emirate.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Aldar Properties, the state-linked builder of Abu Dhabi's Formula One circuit, has won a contact to build a new media free zone in the emirate.
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The bank – which is the only Islamic bank based in the emirate of Sharjah – is not in talks with any other lender regarding potential merger opportunities, he added.
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LONDON, April 25 (IFR) - The Emirate of Abu Dhabi has set final guidance on its offering of US dollar five- and 10-year bonds, according to a lead.
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Tourism is a key industry for the glitzy Middle East emirate which has spent billions of dollars trying to attract visitors with sites including the world's tallest tower.
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Its future emirate, should it come to it, may be more firmly supported by the local population, and therefore even harder to extirpate, than the barbarous IS caliphate.
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Hours earlier, pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera, which is run by the Gulf Arab emirate, said it was combatting a large-scale hack on its media platform.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Eni has signed an exploration and production sharing agreement with the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, the Italian oil company's latest expansion in the Middle East.
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The Dubai market rallied over the past days with enhanced levels of liquidity as the emirate announced a series of initiatives to reduce corporate costs and stimulate growth.
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The agency had previously upgraded the company in 2012 and 2016, as the emirate recovered from a credit crisis that nearly caused it to default on its debt.
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The UAE said on Sunday that four commercial vessels were sabotaged near Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs lying just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
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Residents said that the militants did not declare Azzan an Islamic emirate as they had in the past, instead sending operatives to the town to kidnap security personnel.
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Al Shabaab&aposs attacks promote its overall strategy of undermining the Somali government, driving foreign influence out of Somalia and, ultimately, establishing an Islamic emirate in East Africa.
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"The Islamic Emirate is much more sensitive to and vigilant about prevention of civilian casualties than any other side," he added, using the official name of the Taliban.
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However, the Emirate is rated AA by Standard & Poor's and Fitch, with both agencies affirming their ratings in February, citing the issuer's ability to withstand oil price shocks.
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The Emirate of Sharjah announced the death in a statement Tuesday after London's Metropolitan Police were called to a residence in the upmarket Knightsbridge area shortly after 10.30 a.m.
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Some of those have been imposed on Qatar, but that blockade, initiated in June, has had limited effect on the emirate so far, beyond driving it closer to Iran.
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The incident, which affected a complex in the Ajman Emirate, to the north of Dubai, is the third such fire to afflict the Emirates in just over a year.
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Last week, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and First Abu Dhabi Bank denied reports of being in merger talks after a news report said the emirate was considering combining them.
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But its pile of cash, built up during the budget surplus years, means a lot of opportunity for companies that want to do business in or with the emirate.
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DUBAI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The emirate of Sharjah set initial price thoughts for a dollar-denominated sukuk transaction of benchmark size on Tuesday, a document from lead arrangers showed.
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Last month, Saudi leaders took the dramatic step of leading a coalition of Gulf states to cut ties with Qatar, accusing the tiny emirate of supporting regional terrorist groups.
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In 2009, the city faced a severe debt crisis, that required support from neighboring emirate, Abu Dhabi, as well as a spider web of debt restructurings and roll-overs.
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"We reject all such rumors and unequivocally state that the leader of Islamic Emirate has not authorized anyone to participate in this meeting," the group said in a statement.
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The Taliban reportedly asked Pompeo to sign an agreement with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the name it gave itself when it came to power in Afghanistan in 1996.
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The "Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate" will "not show restraint regarding such evil enemy actions any more", the Taliban said of Sunday's attack which they said involved five U.S. aircraft.
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He suggested that the insurgency break with foreign fighters in its ranks, call itself a movement rather than an Islamic emirate, and stop pretending it is a parallel government.
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"The Islamic Emirate is not opposed to industrialization because we are a backward country and industrialization can play an important role in the growth of our economy," said Mujahid.
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What they want is the return of their Emirate with a more open embrace that shares power, but not a renegotiation of the fundamentals of how they view power.
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The Taliban - which calls itself the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan - then raised issues that are the usual domain of government, such as the plight of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
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But he provided few details of guarantees on human rights, or whether the Taliban would accept anything less than the return of their oppressive Islamic Emirate that was toppled.
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Most public services and infrastructure are provided directly by the federal government, making RAK's spending more flexible than peers' and relieving the emirate of the obligations of a typical sovereign.
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The RTA said the technology underscored its commitment to enhance the Dubai government's strategy to turn 25 percent of mass transit journeys in the emirate into autonomous ones by 2030.
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" In an emailed statement, the emirate said Azima's lawsuit was an "attempt to frustrate a legal proceeding in the United Kingdom" that accuses Azima of bribery and other charges. "Mr.
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LAST April, Etihad Airways, the flag-carrier of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, claimed that 2015 had been its fifth consecutive year in the black, with net profits of $103m.
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"Therefore the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announces the withdrawal of security commitment that had given to the International Red Cross for their activities in Afghanistan," it said in a statement.
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Saudi Arabia and its backers, which accuse Al Jazeera of being a platform for extremists and an agent of interference in their affairs, have threatened further sanctions against the emirate.
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However, throughout the UAE—from Abu Dhabi to Dubai to the tiny emirate of Umm al Quwain—one thing that nearly always fits the big-and-excessive stereotype is brunch.
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The UAE has not yet blamed anyone for the sabotage of four vessels, including two Saudi tankers, near Fujairah emirate, a major bunkering hub just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
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"If you're booked on the Emirate non-stop from Dubai to the U.S., see if they'll move you to one of their one-stops through Milan or Athens," he said.
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The incident occurred near the UAE emirate of Fujairah, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs which lies just outside the Strait of Hormuz, the ministry said in a statement.
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The loans will help Japanese companies in their efforts to renew oil field concessions in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, of which 60 percent will expire in 2018, said JBIC.
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It is unclear how and when Al Qaeda might form an emirate in Syria that would hold territory and most likely harden its position toward more moderate Syrian opposition groups.
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Abu Dhabi's new cruise terminal at Zayed port posted 16 percent growth in 2015 with 170,360 cruise passengers visiting the emirate compared to 146,997 passengers in 2014, the company said.
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RTA is buying Model S sedans and Model X SUVs to be used by the Dubai Taxi Corporation, which operates taxi services in the emirate, RTA said in a statement.
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One for a $1 billion international debt issue by state-owned Abu Dhabi National Energy Co this month showed the emirate had posted an $8.8 billion fiscal deficit last year.
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"We reject all such rumors and unequivocally state that the esteemed leader of Islamic Emirate has not authorized anyone to participate in this meeting," read the statement, posted in English.
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Qatar is on a charm offensive designed to portray itself as a victim of rivalries in which Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their allies have isolated the emirate.
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Although details have not been made public, the fact that the accord appears to acknowledge the Taliban's self-described status as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has aroused particular anger.
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A candidate from the tiny emirate that is preparing to stage the 2022 World Cup secured both the vice presidency of the A.F.C. and a position on the FIFA Council.
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Abu Dhabi, another emirate, joined the schedule eight years later, and Dubai added a second event, the DP World Tour Championship, when the tour sought a big-finish season finale.
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" Calling Dubai a "tourism hub," Al Gergawi said the emirate wanted to attract more visitors, not only the "glitzy and glamorous but also families… who will tend to stay longer.
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It is the latest development planned by the emirate as it aims to attract 20 million visitors a year by 2020 when Dubai will host the World Expo 2020 exhibition.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi has reduced tourism-related fees to help the ailing hospitality sector and attract more visitors as the oil-rich emirate looks to diversify its economy.
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DAMAC expects Dubai's market to rebound in the "second or third quarter of 2019" in the lead up to the Expo 2020 world's fair the emirate is set to host.
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Saudi Arabia and several Arab countries have cut land, sea and air links with the emirate, on vague accusations that it supports terrorism (a charge often levelled at the Saudis, too).
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France's national financial prosecutor's office, which specialises in investigating economic crimes and corruption, has been leading a probe into the awarding of the 2022 tournament to the Gulf emirate since 2016.
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The emirate is keen to boost its status as a global trading hub by increasing its port storage capacity from 10 million cubic metres to 14 million cubic meters by 2020.
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Born on the banks of the Tigris, he carved out an emirate which by his death in 1193 stretched from the modern-day borders of Tunisia to Yemen, Turkey and Iran.
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In neighbouring emirate Abu Dhabi, the index added 0.2 percent with support from First Abu Dhabi Bank and gas explorer Abu Dhabi National Energy, up 1.4 percent and 3.3 percent respectively.
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"As you know, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is the guardian of thousands of widows and orphans and provide them sacrifice of Eid-ul-Azha," read the post, written in broken English.
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One of the sources added that the tie-up between two of the UAE's smallest banks was being driven by authorities in the emirate of Sharjah, where the lenders are based.
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The emirate is keen to boost its status as a global trading hub by increasing its port storage capacity from 10 million cubic meters to 14 million cubic meters by 2020.
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This would be a significant shift for Al Qaeda and its affiliate, which have resisted creating an emirate, or formal sovereign state, until they deem conditions on the ground are ready.
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"(Islamic Emirate) once again reiterates that unless the occupation of Afghanistan is ended, black lists eliminated and innocent prisoners freed, such futile misleading negotiations will not bear any results," it added.
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The Taliban, supported by Pakistan, seem intent on repeating that scenario, hoping to seize control of a section of territory along the Pakistani border and declare once more their Islamic Emirate.
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He just flew to visit the Gulf states, where he is positioning himself as a mediator in the dispute between the Saudi-led coalition and the pro-Iranian emirate of Qatar.
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He broke relations with the neighboring emirate of Qatar, claiming it supported terrorists and was too cozy with Iran, and demanded that it shut down the contentious Al Jazeera television network.
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Before that, she had spent seven years in the Persian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi, helping set up the Louvre's first international outpost there and exercising her skill at cultural diplomacy.
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Saturday's UFC 242, headlined by Khabib Nurmagomedov and Dustin Poirier in a lightweight title unification match, will be just the third time UFC has come to the emirate — and the region.
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Mohammed, whose face and words grace posters around the emirate, is widely regarded in the Middle East as a visionary that made Dubai a model that other Arab countries aspire to.
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DUBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The emirate of Sharjah will raise $500 million through a five-year sukuk transaction, which could price as early as Wednesday, a document from lead arrangers showed.
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During its years in power, from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and it has been fighting an insurgency since to regain control of the country.
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Established four years ago, Alef Education has managed to get its digital education platform into dozens of schools in Abu Dhabi, as well as Al Ain, another city in the emirate.
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DAMAC's billionaire Chairman Hussain Sajwani last year said developers in the emirate should stop all new residential projects for up to two years to kickstart a recovery in Dubai's troubled market.
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Tourism and hospitality, as well as entertainment, retail, transportation and the food and beverage industries are mainstays of the country's economy — particularly for the emirate of Dubai, the country's commercial capital.
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In 2010, Dubai published pictures of an alleged Mossad hit squad that had killed a Hamas armorer in a hotel in the emirate and dressed his death up as a heart attack.
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The UAE said on Sunday that four commercial vessels were hit by sabotage near the emirate of Fujairah, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs lying just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
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Yesterday (December 15), 120 people were arrested by Iranian police following a raid at a mixed-gender party in the country's capital city of Tehran, writes United Arab Emirate publication The National.
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Among the builder's pipeline of projects includes a 1.7 billion dirham ($463 million) contract awarded last month by the UAE federal government to build 1,100 houses in the eastern emirate of Fujairah.
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A mercurial emirate On the face of it, for Riyadh and friends to place a fellow member of the Gulf Cooperation Council under siege is odd if their real enemy is Iran.
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The government of Sharjah, the emirate where Invest Bank is based, stepped in late last year after the central bank ordered the lender to take losses that wiped out its capital base.
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The emirate of Dubai, with its glitzy lifestyle and cosmopolitan culture, is one of the world's most popular financial hubs for regional and international companies for its safety and pro-investments approach.
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Last month, President Sheikh Khalifa, in his capacity as ruler of Abu Dhabi, issued a series of laws establishing a number of government departments for the emirate, including the Department of Energy.
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The United Arab Emirates reported on Sunday that four commercial vessels including two Saudi oil tankers had been sabotaged offshore from the UAE emirate of Fujairah just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
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Many of the Syrian rebel groups that are fighting alongside Nusra against Mr. Assad's government reject the idea of forming an emirate, fearing it would further splinter the opposition to Mr. Assad.
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The United Nations says 2.4 million people have been displaced by Boko Haram's seven-year campaign to establish an Islamic emirate which has spilled over Nigeria's borders into Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
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Our springboard into the region would not be the beach, exactly: Our first stop after flying into the United Arab Emirates was the Emirate of Sharjah, an emerging center for contemporary art.
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What we know The incident took place near UAE territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman, east of the emirate of Fujairah, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said.
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Several details of the agreement remain to be clarified, including the status to be accorded to the Taliban, which the draft recognizes under their preferred title as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
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The meeting between Charles Kushner, Mr. Kushner's father, and Ali Sharif Al Emadi of Qatar was last April, a month before Saudi Arabia and others set up a blockade of the emirate.
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"Peace under the shadow of an Islamic Emirate is not peace; rather, it is surrendering of one party to the other," said Mohammad Karim Khalili, the chair of Afghanistan's High Peace Council.
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They enacted an embargo, cut off diplomatic ties and set up the blockade of the energy-rich emirate, closing Qatar's access to many of the region's ports and much of its airspace.
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DCT also plans to spend 500 million dirhams over the next three years toward marketing the emirate and attract tourists, as part of the Abu Dhabi government's accelerators program called Ghadan 21.
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Most important was a vast cultural district, which Zayed hoped would position Abu Dhabi—both the city and the Emirate that bears its name—as the patron of a modern Arab Renaissance.
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Saudi Arabia's latest push to expand its economy should provide yet more customers – early morning flights from the emirate to the kingdom and the return flights in the evening are already packed.
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"Islamic Emirate has a clear agenda for peace in Afghanistan and that is the end of invasion and an overall Islamic regime," its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement this week.
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"The Islamic Emirate directs all its mujahideen to help in the security of all national projects that are in the higher interest of Islam and the country," they said, referring to their fighters.
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DUBAI, April 10 (Reuters) - Dubai's Emaar Properties plans to build a new tower in the emirate to surpass the Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest building, Chairman Mohamed Alabbar told reporters on Sunday.
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Elsewhere in the Gulf, Abu Dhabi's Union National Bank , the first to report in the emirate, posted a 15 percent drop in third-quarter net profit, missing analysts' forecasts as interest income fell.
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Meantime, it has agreed to nominate former IT minister Hessa Al-Jaber to represent the emirate on VW's supervisory board, allowing the carmaker to fulfill legal quotas for women ahead of the AGM.
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The case in the emirate of Sharjah related to a cheque for 798.9 million dirhams ($218 million), signed by Naqvi and Rafique Lakhani, and written to Hamid Jafar, another founding shareholder in Abraaj.
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"There is no truth in this claim by the enemy that members of the Islamic Emirate were present at the ceremony or that members of the Taliban Council went there," the statement said.
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Jubeir defended the Arab powers' move against the gas-rich emirate as a boycott not a blockade, saying his government was exercising its "sovereign right", the channel reported in a series of newsflashes.
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Jim Krane, energy fellow at Rice University in Texas and author of "City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism", said the emirate faced structural challenges including an increasingly tough geopolitical environment.
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In Wilson's new novel, "The Bird King," she creates an equally appealing protagonist in Fatima, the favored concubine of the last sultan of Granada, whose emirate is about to fall to the Spanish.
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The emirate could use closer ties to American companies — be it a stake in a United States airline or purchases of Boeing aircraft — to help sway United States regulators from imposing trade restrictions.
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NEW YORK, April 25 (IFR) - The Emirate of Abu Dhabi launched a US$5bn two-part bond offering Monday at the tight end of price guidance, according to one of the lead managers.
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The fifth largest lender in the emirate by assets reported a net profit attributable to equity holders of the bank of 447 million dirhams ($121.76 million) in the three months to March 31.
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It's also understandable why Qatar would demur: 13 conditions laid down by Saudi for lifting the blockade remain in place, including a requirement for the emirate to cease covert financing of Islamic terrorism.
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Soldiers swinging their left arms while carrying machine guns in their right marched in green uniforms as a band played the Vatican and United Arab Emirate anthems on bagpipes, silver trumpets and tubas.
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In a statement Sunday, the RTA said the technology underscored its commitment to enhance the Dubai government's strategy to turn 25 percent of mass transit journeys in the emirate into autonomous ones by 2030.
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But the emirate prospered regardless, and the "Dubai model" became the envy of Arab states, especially as "Arab Spring" protests led to raging civil wars - something Gulf rulers were determined to avoid at home.
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So I contacted Qari Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi and Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesmen for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban's self-styled government in exile, to talk about the insurgents' counterintuitive plans to go green.
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Data from Dubai's Tourism and Commerce Marketing department shows 291,662 Chinese travelers visited the desert emirate in the first quarter of 2019; retail analysts expect the majority of that to be lost this quarter.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai authorities have begun telling owners of high-rise buildings across the emirate to make the facades more resistant to fire, the government said on Saturday, after a string of skyscraper blazes.
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A Norwegian-registered oil products tanker and a UAE fuel bunker barge were among four vessels hit near Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs located just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
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It has lately downplayed its desire to reestablish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — their name for the country when they ruled it — and may be more open to some kind of power-sharing agreement.
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"The Islamic Emirate has left the doors of understanding and negotiations open," they said in a statement that listed a series of demands including the end of international sanctions and the release of detainees.
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DUBAI, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Sharjah, the third-largest emirate of the United Arab Emirates, started marketing a 10-year dollar sukuk, or Islamic bonds, at around 185 basis points over midswaps, a document showed.
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Doha, Qatar (CNN)Qatar said it is open to mediation to resolve the crisis that has seen a group of nearby countries move to isolate the emirate over claims it supports Islamist extremist groups.
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A Norwegian-registered oil products tanker and a UAE fuel bunker barge were among the vessels hit near Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs located just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
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ABU DHABI, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Container volumes rose by 9973 percent at Abu Dhabi's Khalifa Port in 2015 buoyed by industrial and infrastructure development in the emirate, operator Abu Dhabi Ports said on Wednesday.
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The so-called quartet wants the little gas-rich emirate to stop supporting Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and to shut down Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular broadcaster, which Qatar sponsors.
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Bahrain's civil aviation authority said on Monday a private Emirati Airbus A320 en route from the emirate of Fujairah to Rome was forced to a higher altitude after Qatari war planes flew dangerously close.
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Finally, we need to remember that there may be no middle ground between our vision of some modicum of democracy and human rights and the Taliban's vision of a return to the Islamic Emirate.
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Al Zahra Hospital is one of the largest private hospitals in the emirate of Sharjah, operating 137 beds, and will complement NMC's existing network of seven out-patient medical centres there, the company said.
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N.Y.U. officials have provided very few details on their deal with Abu Dhabi, admitting only that the emirate gave the university an initial $50 million grant — a good-will gift negotiated by Mr. Sexton.
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He was right: The Taliban flew their flag over the office and posted a sign declaring it the "Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the Taliban government's name when it ran Afghanistan.
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SNOC and Italian energy giant Eni announced in January the discovery of Mahani, a new find of natural gas and condensate onshore in Sharjah, and the first in the Emirate since the early 1980s.
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When it was reported that the Taliban would sign the accord as "the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the news outraged many people in the government, whose official name is the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Locked in a confrontation with its neighbors, Qatar said on Tuesday that it would dramatically increase its production of natural gas — the fuel that made the tiny emirate rich and gave it regional influence.
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The chief executive of a foreign financial firm in Dubai said the emirate faced unprecedented competition from neighboring countries for capital, as low oil prices forced those countries to develop their own non-oil industries.
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DUBAI, June 9 (Reuters) - Qatar dismissed allegations of support for Islamist militancy on Friday after four Arab states, which cut ties with Qatar earlier this week, put the emirate on a "terror finance watch list".
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This was despite continued speculation about more mergers and acquisitions activity in the emirate after a spate of big deal announcements, including a proposed merger of First Gulf Bank and National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
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DUBAI, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The emirate of Sharjah has picked six banks to arrange investor meetings starting next week ahead of a potential dollar-denominated sukuk issue, a document from lead arrangers showed on Wednesday.
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The emirate, whose economy is focused on tourism and international business services, is suffering a property downturn and a slowdown in retail as it gears up to host the World Expo trade fair in 2020.
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Al Jazeera America was the latest, and perhaps most ambitious, branch of a media empire that the tiny but wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar has used to project its influence, first regionally and then globally.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Firefighters brought a fire under control at a tower being built in Dubai's Downtown district, authorities said on Sunday, the latest in a spate of fires to hit tall buildings in the emirate.
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The criminal case in the emirate of Sharjah relates to a check for 798 million dirham ($217.3 million), signed by Naqvi and a fellow executive and written to Hamid Jafar, another founding shareholder in Abraaj.
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The 48-hour competition, which was won by French team Mobius, required the six selected finalist participants to design a Hyperloop link between Dubai and Fujairah (another emirate in the UAE) for passengers and cargo.
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DUBAI, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Dubai's Union Properties may issue Islamic bonds to fund construction of a new property development in the emirate worth some 8 billion dirhams ($2.2 billion), the company's chairman said on Monday.
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Filmed in the older, rundown suburbs of the glitzy Gulf Arab emirate of Dubai, the ad reflects the struggles faced not only by women across the region but also by some of its own stars.
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But a court in the emirate of Sharjah at one stage directed enforcement of British court orders in the UAE be suspended, appearing to set courts in the two jurisdictions at odds with each other.
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DUBAI, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The emirate of Sharjah has hired banks ahead of a potential issue of 10-year U.S. dollar-denominated sukuk, or Islamic bonds, a document issued by one of the banks showed.
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And, the Afghan government official said, it may allow the Taliban to continue referring to itself in official conduct as the "Islamic Emirate" — as it did when the extremist group was ruling Afghanistan with fear.
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Although the emirate – the second largest of seven sheikhdoms in a federation dominated by oil-rich Abu Dhabi – has recorded narrow budget surpluses over the last five years that run is coming to an end.
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The two will also team up on a project to study how to cut congestion and the cost of transport in the Emirate, which Uber hopes will open up more business opportunities in the future.
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Emirates NBD, Dubai's largest lender and the first bank to report earnings from the emirate, may weigh on Dubai's general stock index after posting on Monday flat third-quarter net profit, narrowly missing analysts' forecasts.
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DUBAI, Nov 2 (Reuters) - RAK Hospitality Holding, a United Arab Emirates company controlled by the government of the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, is in talks with banks about a debt-raising exercise, bankers said.
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German authorities say Khangoshvili also went by the name Tornike K. and that he was on a Russian terrorist list, with Moscow believing him to be a member of an extremist organization called Caucasus Emirate.
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A prominent academic in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, added fuel to that fire by saying the attack had been part of an effort to bring the fight against Iran inside the country.
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Dubai's stock index was up 20.7% in early trade with the largest lender in the emirate, Emirates NBD, rising 25.7% after getting banking regulatory approval to acquire the shares of Turkey's Denizbank from Russia's Sberbank.
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The facility will attempt to imitate the success of the DMCC's Tea Centre; Dubai now imports tea from around 13 origins, and estimates about 60 percent of the world's tea re-exports go through the emirate.
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But a Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mojahid, denied responsibility for this rampage in a tweet, saying: "Today's attack on hospital in Kabul has nothing to do with the Mujahidin of Islamic Emirate," using the group's formal name.
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The emirate was forced to announced a debt standstill accord with creditors for $25 billion dollars, and faced criticism by campaigners demanding the repeal of what they consider oppressive labor laws affecting guest workers from Asia.
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Nakheel, the developer of the palm shaped islands in the emirate, expects leasable retail space to more than triple to 17 million square feet in the next three to five years from 4.5 million square feet.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The number of foreign tourists visiting Dubai in the first half of 2017 rose by 10.6 percent to 8.06 million, Dubai's tourism department said on Sunday, with the emirate proving particular popular with Indians.
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The public prosecutor's office in Sharjah, an emirate in the UAE, issued the warrants against Arif Naqvi, who founded Abraaj in 2002, and fellow executive Rafique Lakhani, according to the document, which was dated June 18.
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"Kuwait has the advantage of being a sovereign over Abu Dhabi, which is an emirate, and the United Arab Emirates theoretically include more leveraged emirates like Dubai and more deficit-heavy Sharjah," the fund manager said.
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Abu Dhabi is hosting the sixth annual World Ocean Summit this week, drawing attention to the efforts the small Gulf emirate is making to combat climate change and the growing threat it poses to the region.
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ADNH, one of the biggest hotel owners in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, has been in advanced discussions with Emaar over the last two months, the sources said, adding Emaar would continue to manage the hotels.
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The Emirate of Sicily lasted only a few hundred years, but with Italian, Greek, Arab, and Berber cultural, ethnic, and racial heritage, one would be hard-pressed to find a more multicultural place than medieval Sicily.
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Abu Dhabi, political capital of the seven-emirate federation, is moving assertively against the threat it sees from Islamist groups such as al Qaeda, while promoting itself as a stable, open and largely tolerant Muslim country.
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State Department officials granted permission to the U.S. contractor, Maryland-based CyberPoint International, to assist an Emirate intelligence agency in surveillance operations, but it is unclear how much they knew about its activities in the UAE.
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A community of Arabs from the Muslim Emirate of Sicily landed in the eleventh century and dug in so deep that waves of Christian conquest—Norman, Swabian, Aragonese, Spanish, Sicilian, French, and British—couldn't efface them.
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DUBAI, June 9 (Reuters) - Qatar's foreign minister on Friday described Arab powers' "blockade" of his country as a violation of international law and said there was an attempt to mobilise international opinion against the Gulf emirate.
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Epstein said the UFC would stage all its Middle East events in the emirate, the only place it has so far held events in the region, but that they could jointly hold events in other cities.
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Meanwhile, some American and Afghan officials believe that the Taliban seek to monopolize power, revive the Islamic Emirate that they established in Afghanistan in the 1990s and potentially allow safe havens for groups like Al Qaeda.
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DUBAI, March 25 (Reuters) - Dubai has directed private sector companies to implement remote working systems for 80% of staff from now until April 9, the authority regulating business in the emirate said on Twitter on Wednesday.
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Fahad Al Gergawi, chief executive of the Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI), told CNBC Tuesday that the emirate wants more accessible, smaller and low-key accommodation in order to attract a wider range of tourists.
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"Following lengthy negotiations between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the United States of America, both parties agreed to sign the finalized accord in the presence of international observers," a Taliban spokesman said in a statement.
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"Following lengthy negotiations between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the United States of America, both parties agreed to sign the finalised accord in the presence of international observers," a Taliban spokesman said in a statement.
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The criminal case in the emirate of Sharjah relates to a check for 798.9 million dirhams ($218 million), signed by Naqvi and fellow executive Rafique Lakhani, and written to Hamid Jafar, another founding shareholder in Abraaj.
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AD said on Monday it had reached agreement with Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) to acquire real estate assets worth 3.7 billion dirhams ($1.01 billion), marking further consolidation of state-controlled entities in the emirate.
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ABU DHABI, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The emirate of Abu Dhabi reintroduced a 5 percent cap on annual rent increases on Tuesday in an effort to protect tenants from unjustified hikes, after abolishing the cap three years ago.
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A Norwegian insurers' report seen by Reuters said Iran's Revolutionary Guards were "highly likely" to have facilitated the attack on vessels near the UAE's Fujairah emirate, a main bunkering hub lying just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
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In their statement late on Thursday, the four Arab states said the initial list of 13 demands they had put to Qatar was now void and they pledged further political, economic and legal steps against the emirate.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Qatar supports Kuwait's efforts to end a rift with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, its foreign minister said on Monday, but the emirate remains puzzled over why "abusive measures" had been imposed on it.
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Police said on Monday that a post mortem had shown that Sridevi, who died on Saturday, had drowned at her Dubai hotel room bathtub during a visit to the Gulf Arab emirate to attend a family wedding.
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Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih, in comments run by state media, said the drone attack and Sunday's sabotage of four vessels, including two Saudi tankers, off Fujairah emirate, a major bunkering hub, threatened global oil supplies.
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He said the dispute with Qatar could be long-lasting, comparing it to the U.S. embargo of Cuba imposed 60 years ago, but played down its impact, dismissing the Gulf emirate as "smaller than a Cairo street".
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Boko Haram has killed thousands of civilians and displaced some 2.4 million people across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad during a seven-year insurgency aimed at establishing an emirate based on a radical interpretation of Islamic law.
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The works are dispersed among several sites around the Emirate of Sharjah: the Arts Square, Calligraphy Square, the Al Hamriyah studios, the planetarium, a structure called the Flying Saucer, and the main hub at Al Mureijah Square.
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Most fighters who stayed in Dagestan have switched their allegiance from the Caucasus Emirate, a regional insurgent group linked with al-Qaeda, to IS, which last year claimed the Russian North Caucasus as one of its provinces.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Dubai is planning to build a new 30 billion dirham ($8.17 billion) deep-tunnel sewage system to be completed in 2025, the emirate said in a statement carried by state news agency WAM on Sunday.
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On Monday, a half-dozen countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain, cut diplomatic ties with the energy-rich emirate, accusing it of backing Tehran and Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - S&P Global Ratings cut its credit ratings for two Dubai state-owned companies, saying a weakening economy in the emirate was hurting the government's ability to extend emergency support to the firms if needed.
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But now they were on opposite sides of a remote dispute between wealthy Persian Gulf monarchs: One was a lobbyist for Qatar, and the other had sided strongly with rivals who sought to blockade the tiny emirate.
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We look at why Qatar, the tiny emirate with close ties to Iran, is facing a regional blockade: Doha has become a refuge for a diverse medley of fighters, financiers and ideologues with long lists of enemies.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A custody battle in one of the world's costliest divorces is playing out in Dubai with the former spouses fighting for control over a $540 million yacht temporarily seized by the Gulf emirate this year.
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McFarlane accepted that Latifa had been abducted from a U.S.-flagged boat off the coast of India in March, 2018 and taken back to Dubai, the second time she had unsuccessfully tried to flee from the emirate.
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Tuesday's attacks on the pumping stations more than 200 miles (320 km) west of Riyadh and Sunday's on four tankers off Fujairah emirate have raised concerns that the United States and Iran might inching toward military conflict.
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Overall, Dubai appears to be growing solidly, partly because of government spending on preparations for the emirate to host the 1003 World Expo; the International Monetary Fund expects gross domestic product to expand over 3.0 percent this year.
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These announcements come as the first wholly-focused artificial intelligence (AI) conference wraps up in neighboring emirate Dubai, where sluggish growth and falling property prices are prompting policymakers to rethink long-term residency programs and foreign ownership laws.
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Reports of a tanker on fire in the Gulf of Oman followed the earlier sabotage attacks on vessels near the Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs and located just outside the nearby Strait of Hormuz.
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Boyle said the Taliban, who he referred to by their official name - the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan - had carried out an investigation last year and conceded that the crimes against his family were perpetrated by the Haqqani network.
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Boko Haram seeks to carve out an emirate in northeastern Nigeria and has staged a campaign of suicide and other attacks in Cameroon, Chad and Niger over the past year, including killing as many as 1,000 in Cameroon.
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The statement failed to mention how potential donors could send money to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Islamic state that the Taliban ruled from 1996 to 2001 and the name by which it still refers to itself.
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But they have shown no sign of agreeing to demands for a ceasefire and formal negotiations with President Ashraf Ghani's government, which Mullah Haibatullah accused of trying to sabotage dialogue between the Islamic Emirate and Afghan political figures.
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Mohamed Bin Zayed tweeted that the new initiative will also speed up contract payments to the private sector and exempt new licenses from the requirement of having a physical presence in the emirate in the first two years.
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Mr. Zawahri released his first audio statement in several months in early May, and it seemed to clear the way for the Qaeda figures to use the Nusra Front to form an emirate in Syria with his blessing.
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Many Afghans fear a U.S. troop withdrawal announcement will weaken their bargaining power with the hardline Islamist group, which aims to re-establish an Islamic emirate to replace an elected government it dismisses as puppets of foreign forces.
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The fourth-largest lender in the emirate by assets reported a net profit of 452 million dirhams ($123.16 million) in the three months to March 31, compared to 450.0 million dirhams in the same period a year ago.
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Should the transaction materialise, it would be a rare bond sale from an Abu Dhabi government-related entity, meaning it would likely garner significant interest from international investors keen to add the highly-rated emirate to their portfolios.
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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which is what the Taliban called its government during its rule from 1996 to 2001, was based on the allegiance of religious scholars to an all-powerful supreme leader who had ultimate authority.
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Dubai is already one of the world's most visited cities, although its hotels, shopping malls and state-owned airline, Emirates, have been buffeted by a strong U.S. dollar which has made the emirate pricier for many overseas visitors.
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Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said he would not speculate about who was behind Sunday's sabotage acts on four vessels near Fujairah emirate while an investigation was underway and due to be completed within days.
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The shadow governor of one province told us that he used a smart phone and had a Facebook account but still believes that the Islamic Emirate should stone adulterers to death and cut off the hand of thieves.
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Nonie Villanor, 52, who is Filipino and lives in the Ras al Khaimah Emirate, northeast of Abu Dhabi, came to the stadium on Tuesday with his wife and two daughters, both of whom were born in the Emirates.
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Last week he called the oil-rich Middle East country "a funder of terrorism at a high level" as he appeared to take credit for a group of Gulf states cutting diplomatic and economic ties with the emirate.
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DUBAI, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Dubai's ruler said on Monday the emirate had set up a real estate committee tasked with balancing supply and demand in the sector and guarding against competition between semi-government companies and private firms.
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A few weeks ago, the emirate of Dubai began testing flying drone taxis — also known by the not-at-all-menacing-sounding brand name Volocopter—in the hopes of getting a full system off the ground in five years.
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Bahrain's civil aviation authority confirmed the incident took place, saying two Qatari fighter jets flew under a UAE Airbus A320 en route from the emirate of Fujairah to Rome, forcing the UAE aircraft to fly at a higher altitude.
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Regional debt markets did not react to the May attacks - when oil tankers were hit off the Fujairah emirate, one of the world's largest bunkering hubs - but their weakness on Thursday showed the latest incident was making investors jittery.
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According to the book The Taliban's Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community, a charity's website urged supporters of the jihad against the Taliban's Indian- and Russian-backed opponents to donate as early as 1998.
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ABU DHABI, July 31 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi has attracted five Chinese companies to build diverse industries in its industrial zone with an initial investment of $300 million as the oil-rich emirate pushes ahead with its economic diversification plans.
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OPINION: Russia is using Syria to run circles around the U.S. U.S. policymakers must act immediately to preserve the opposition groups that will be critical to securing a future Syria that is not an Islamic Emirate for al Qaeda.
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Overnight visitor numbers jumped 7.5 percent in 2015 to 14.2 million, as the emirate built on its policy of attracting tourists from a wide range of countries, aided by the expanded reach of airlines Emirates and Flydubai, Almarri said.
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Qatar, the tiny emirate now being diplomatically frozen out of the region, is home to Al Udeid Airbase, home to about 10,000 American servicemen and a key strategic airbase for U.S. Central Command operations in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
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Al Zorah, located along the coastline of the UAE emirate of Ajman, will aim to accommodate some 50,000 people, down from an original goal of 200,000, Oussama Kabbani, the chief operating officer of Lebanese developer Solidere International Ltd, said.
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KUALA LUMPUR/KARACHI (Reuters) - Non-Arab nations in Asia, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Pakistan, are getting caught in the middle after Saudi Arabia led a clampdown on Qatar, accusing the tiny emirate of supporting pro-Iranian Islamist militants.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi hopes the opening of a $1 billion Warner Bros theme park in July will help it in its bid to nearly double the number of tourists visiting the emirate over the next few years.
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"The likeliest outcome of the current strategy in Syria, if it succeeds, is the de facto establishment and ultimate declaration of a Jabhat al Nusra emirate in Syria," the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said on Wednesday.
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The United Arab Emirates introduced 5 percent VAT at the same time as Saudi Arabia, and data released last Thursday showed annual inflation in the emirate of Dubai rising to 2.7 percent in January from 1.5 percent in December.
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Dubai is already known for pushing women into positions of authority in government — the emirate named seven women to its ministerial cabinet in 2016, for instance, and there are dozens of prominent women entrepreneurs, including the founder of BitOasis.
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Mr. Shinwari knows well how invested the Taliban are in their strict interpretation of politics and governance through an Islamic lens: He was one of the officials central to the effort to draft a constitution for the Islamic Emirate.
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In addition to a trade embargo, the countries cut off diplomatic ties, closed borders and set up the blockade of the energy-rich emirate, shutting off Qatar's access to many of the region's ports and much of its airspace.
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The list of names the lawyers compiled, they argue, will bolster Mr. Broidy's case that the rulers of Qatar — the tiny Persian Gulf emirate that is a nemesis of the U.A.E.— had targeted him for his advocacy against them.
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It appears from the same leaked cables that the United States has balanced its criticism of Qatar in public with its desires to remain the chosen strategic partner of the emirate, in terms of national security and industrial development.
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Sources told Reuters earlier this month that the emirate had been in discussions with banks for potential issues in the debt markets this year as part of plans to engage global fixed income investors on a more regular basis.
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"As leader of the al Qaeda organization for jihad, I extend my pledge of allegiance once again, the approach of Osama to invite the Muslim nation to support the Islamic Emirate," al-Zawahri said in a 14 minute recording.
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"As leader of the al-Qaeda organization for jihad, I extend my pledge of allegiance once again, the approach of Osama to invite the Muslim nation to support the Islamic Emirate," al-Zawahri said in a 14 minute recording.
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The tanker attacks occurred off the UAE emirate of Fujairah, which lies just outside the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global oil and gas shipping route that separates the Gulf Arab states - allies of the United States - and Iran.
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"The Islamic Emirate not only backs all national projects which are in the interest of the people and result in the development and prosperity of the nation but are also committed to safeguarding them," the Taliban said in a statement.
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With its main ally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it has led the way in isolating Qatar, a contrarian emirate, by cutting land, sea and air links (the Saudis even want to dig a canal to make the place an island).
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JBF RAK stopped production of PET resin at its plant in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah at the end of June after the company experienced a shortage of working capital, Chief Operating Officer Rohit Maindwal told Reuters on Aug. 10.
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DUBAI, June 12 (Reuters) - Dubai's Meydan Group has obtained 1 billion dirhams ($272 million) of Islamic financing, Meydan said on Sunday, in a fresh sign that the emirate is pushing ahead with big development plans despite a regional economic slowdown.
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"We understand the importance of spreading information about our jihad and our determination to re-establish the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan," said Mujahid, who says he draws a monthly salary of 20013,000 Afghani ($180), plus $128 for internet and mobile expenses.
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Meanwhile, Abu Dhabi's Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport (DMAT) has just commissioned Hyperloop TT (Hyperloop Transportation Technologies) to undertake a feasibility study of a hyperloop route between the capital city and Al Ain, a smaller town in the same emirate.
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But it did not tackle one of the key concerns in Kabul - whether the Taliban would accept the current constitutional framework of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or insist on an Islamic Emirate, the name given to their own system.
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DUBAI, June 5 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi's crown prince said on Tuesday he had approved 50 billion dirham ($13.61 billion) worth of measures to stimulate growth in the emirate, which would make it easier to do business, help tourism and create jobs.
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Asked about prospects for another big mall in Abu Dhabi, which has at least six big malls and some smaller ones, Shocair said Majid Al Futtaim saw demand as Abu Dhabi's population grows and as tourists flock into the emirate.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Qatar dismissed as "baseless" on Friday renewed accusations that it meddles in other countries' affairs and finances terrorism, in its first public response to a statement from four Arab states locked in a diplomatic dispute with the tiny emirate.
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The bank, majority owned by the government of the Ras Al Khaimah emirate in the United Arab Emirates, appointed Bank ABC, Citi, Emirates NBD Capital, First Abu Dhabi Bank, ICBC and Standard Chartered Bank as joint lead managers and bookrunners.
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"The fundamental disagreement is over how far Al Qaeda's long-game strategy should be sustained before revealing more and more of Nusra's real face and solidifying territorial control through the formation of an emirate," Mr. Lister said in an interview.
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"From Al Qaeda's religious perspective, the declaration of a state or of an emirate should only happen in a context where it is possible to govern effectively," said Firas Abi Ali, a senior principal analyst with IHS Country Risk in London.
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DUBAI, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Dubai's Meydan Group, a major developer of hospitality and entertainment facilities in the emirate, is seeking a syndicated loan of a minimum of 450 million dirhams ($122.5 million) to finance a hotel project, sources said on Monday.
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The four Arab states - Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain - also want the tiny emirate to cut ties to Iran, their regional arch-rival, and to shut a Turkish military base on its territory, among other demands.
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Pakistan also has close ties with Qatar itself, including a 15-year agreement signed last year to import up to 3.75 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year from the emirate, a major step in filling Pakistan's energy shortfall.
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"The emirate continues to attract businesses and investors as a competitive hub for sustainable business development," Dubai's Department of Economic Development said in a statement this week, adding that licensing figures showed "continued investment in all vital economic sectors in Dubai".
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But what they produced was more mixed signals as President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson contradicted each other in separate statements about the tiny Emirate, which happens to host the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East.
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But over the last three months, it has become entangled in a bitter diplomatic crisis in which several Arabic-speaking countries, led by Saudi Arabia, severed relations with Qatar, the tiny gas-rich emirate that will host the 2022 World Cup.
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The government believes the Taliban will come to recognize it will never get their emirate and will never successfully run the country; not just because most people reject it but because it doesn't have the money, according to the source.
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Under the deal between Uber and the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), Uber will be able to use 14,000 vehicles through its app "as per the laws governing the operation of taxis and limousines in Dubai emirate", an RTA statement said.
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Passenger drones, capable of carrying a single rider and a small suitcase, will begin buzzing above the emirate as early as July, according to the director of the city's transportation authority, part of an ambitious plan to increase driverless technology.
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Related: War-Related Violence in Afghanistan Killed and Injured More Civilians Than Ever Last Year "We reject all such rumors and unequivocally state that the leader of Islamic Emirate has not authorized anyone to participate in this meeting," the statement said.
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