There are moments in a nation’s life when the sky is not the only thing under threat. For the UAE, the recent Iranian attacks were one of those moments—an unprecedented trial that tested not just its air defenses, but its very sense of reality. As Minister of State Noura Al Kaabi described at the Arab Media Summit, the country found itself fighting a war on two fronts at once. One front was physical, measured in the roar of interceptors and the flash of explosions overhead. The other was digital, unfolding in the endless scroll of social media feeds, where fabricated…

It is a question that has been circling through social media feeds and Telegram channels with the kind of quiet urgency that makes people stop and wonder: is the European Union really demanding that Ukraine force its women into military service to help fight off Russia’s invasion? The claim, which has been shared and reshared across X and Russian-language platforms in recent weeks, paints a picture of Brussels leaning heavily on Kyiv, pushing for the compulsory conscription of women as if this were some kind of condition for continued support. It sounds dramatic, and perhaps that is exactly why it…