Regional news and geopolitical analysis on Iran, Israel, Gulf states, and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
The Gulf’s ambition to become a global artificial intelligence hub has collided with an unexpected engineering problem: how do you protect enormous computing facilities when the region itself is exposed to military conflict? The United Arab Emirates is revising plans for a vast artificial intelligence data-center campus after Iranian missile and drone attacks damaged cloud-computing…
Netanyahu Vows to Defy Trump: “I Will Tell Them No” — White House Showdown Tuesday Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rejects President Trump’s demand to withdraw troops from Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. What happens next at Tuesday’s White House meeting? The Unthinkable Split In a stunning rebuke that no geopolitical analyst saw coming, Israeli Prime…
In the early hours of February 28, 2026, the Middle East erupted into a dangerous new phase of escalation when Iran launched waves of ballistic missiles and drones at multiple Gulf states, including the United Arab Emirates. The strikes on Dubai and Abu Dhabi were part of a broader retaliatory operation codenamed “True Promise 4”…
