23 February - The Financial Action Task Force removes the UAE from its "gray list" of countries not fully complying with measures to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.[5]
April
4 April - Five people are killed in a fire at a residential building in Sharjah.[6]
16 April - Heavy rains cause floods in multiple areas in the United Arab Emirates.[7] The National Center for Meteorology records the country's heaviest rainfall in 75 years.[8] At least four people are reported killed.[9][10]
10 July – The Federal Court of Appeal sentences 43 people, including several human rights activists, to life imprisonment in a mass trial on charges of plotting acts of violence and destabilisation.[14]
23 September – The United Arab Emirates becomes the second country after India to be designated as a "major defense partner" by the United States.[19]
24 September – Four soldiers are killed and nine injured after an accident while transporting ammunition in the UAE.[20][21]
29 September – The residence of the UAE's ambassador to Sudan is bombed in Khartoum, with the UAE accusing the Sudanese Armed Forces of launching an airstrike[22] and the latter blaming the Rapid Support Forces for the incident.[23]
17 November – Stocks listed in the United Arab Emirates top $1 trillion USD for the first time.[26]
24 November – Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi working for Chabad, is found killed after being reported missing in Dubai on 21 November. The Israeli government attributes his death as motivated by anti-Semitism.[27]
December
3 December – United Arab Emirates foreign aid reach AED 360 billion ($98 billion) since its establishment in 1971.[28]
26 December – A light aircraft crashes off the coast of Ras Al Khaimah, killing the pilot and her sole companion.[29]
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