Gulf Cooperation Council

UAE’s Lana Nusseibeh receives more support in bid to become next UN secretary-general

Prior to her role as UAE permanent representative to the UN, Nusseibeh established the UAE Foreign Affairs Ministry's Policy Planning Department and served as its first director for three years.

UAE Political Affairs Assistant Minister Lana Nusseibeh attends a meeting with foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council Member States (GCC) and the US Secretary of State, in Manama on June 25, 2026.
A flydubai Boeing 737-8 MAX A6-FKF aircraft

The flydubai hijacking exposed a flaw in Gulf security. Here's how the GCC can counter it - opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Negev Conference in the southern city of Dimona, southern Israel, July 17, 2026.

Netanyahu vows Iran will never have nuclear weapons, rejects BoP's 15-point Gaza plan

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a Congressional Roundtable on Anti-Fraud Initiatives at the Indian Treaty Room of Eisenhower Executive Office Building on August 5, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Attacks continue in Strait of Hormuz as Vance notes progress in Iran negotiations


Russia and Gulf countries seek to increase cooperation - analysis

The Gulf is increasingly a center of world affairs, with Russia's meeting with the GCC coming amid the war in Ukraine as well as other high-profile international delegations.

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Oman's Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi attend a joint press conference in Moscow, on July 10, 2023.

Indian businesses invest billions in GCC

Experts disagree on the extent to which the Indian investments benefit the local economies

 Saudi Arabia hosts a meeting of foreign ministers from Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to discuss Syria's return to the Arab League in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, April 14, 2023.

Gulf leaders to US: Take responsibility for Israel's Bezalel Smotrich

The Gulf foreign ministers specifically referred to Smotrich's statements regarding "wiping out" Huwara and claiming that the Palestinian people didn't exist.

 Head of the Religious Zionist Party MK Bezalel Smotrich  gives a press statement at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2021.

Blinken meets E3 Foreign Ministers: “concern about Iran’s nuclear escalation”

The US and the GCC called on Iran “to immediately reverse course, cease its nuclear provocations and engage in meaningful diplomacy."

 GULF COOPERATION Council foreign ministers meet in Riyadh, last year. President Joe Biden is to attend a GCC meeting, augmented by the leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.

'War over food and energy, not nuclear proliferation, is the greatest possibility' - interview

An interview with decorated business consultant on Middle East political, security, economic, and energy issues, Norman T. Roule.

 An Iranian Officer of Revolutionary Guards, with Israel flag drawn on his boots, is seen during graduation ceremony, held for the military cadets in a military academy, in Tehran, Iran June 30, 2018

Rising cost of living forces expats to leave Gulf countries

Lower-paid foreigners have been largely unaffected by the surging cost of living.

People walk outside The Dubai Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 12, 2020.

Jeddah Summit showed US is no longer sole strategic partner in Gulf - opinion

US President Joe Biden attended the summit held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia recently along with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.

 THE JEDDAH Security and Development Summit takes place, earlier this month.

Every US administration suffers from the same strategic rigidity - opinion

Most analysts and authors agree that each successive US administration has made strategic mistakes in their relations with Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

 HOUSE DEMOCRATIC leader Nancy Pelosi presents then-US president Barack Obama with a book in 2016 containing Democratic members’ statements of support for the Iran nuclear agreement. Obama ignored concerns of Gulf allies about the threat posed by Iran.

Saudi ambassador to return to Lebanon after Mikati statement - report

A diplomatic crisis exploded in November after a Lebanese minister expressed support for the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.

 Lebanon's President Michel Aoun meets with Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid bin Abdullah Bukhari at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon March 23, 2021

Iran-backed Houthi rebels attack Saudi oil facilities

Cars and homes were damaged in the attacks but there were no casualties, state media has reported.

 A MILITARY drone is launched from an unknown location in Yemen last week, as viewed in this screenshot obtained from a handout video.