The US State Department's Global Terrorism Report 2018 described the UAE as a regional and international station for the movement and movement of terrorist organizations and accused Saudi Arabia of continuing to arrest activists and academics under the pretext of terrorism laws.

The report analyzed and commented on the obligations of many countries in the fight against terrorism and its financing. The report classified North Korea, Iran, Sudan and Syria as state sponsors of terrorism.

Saudi Arabia continued to provide some support for intolerant views in a number of countries.

He said some Saudi textbooks still contain language that incites discrimination, intolerance and violence.

He pointed to the arrest of activists, academics and clerics during 2018, and the Kingdom defended those arrests on the pretext that they are crimes against national security and classified as a terrorist.

The US State Department report described the UAE as a regional and international station for the movement of terrorist organizations and a center for receiving and sending financial support.

He said political considerations were an obstacle to the UAE government freezing and confiscating terrorist assets.

He stressed that the ongoing rift between Qatar on the one hand and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt on the other, continues to hinder regional cooperation in the fight against terrorism.

The report dealt with the procedures and situations related to terrorism cases in a number of countries in the world, where he criticized the measures taken by the Egyptian authorities in the field of combating cybercrime and said that it targets the opposition.

In the Yemeni file, the report criticized the inability of the Yemeni government to implement international resolutions to combat the financing of terrorism.

He also accused Iran of supporting terrorist groups he said were acting as proxies, expanding its destructive influence around the world, and trying to launch terrorist attacks in European countries.

State organization is spreading globally
According to the State Department's annual report, ISIS continued to spread globally in 2018 through affiliated networks and groups, despite the administration's announcement of its victory over the group in Syria and the killing of its leader last month in a US raid.

Iran has also been a major state sponsor of terrorism and is pumping about $ 1 billion a year to support its proxies in the region, despite Washington's toughening sanctions, the report said.

Terrorist tactics and the use of technology have also evolved in 2018, while veteran fighters from groups such as ISIS have begun to pose new threats as they return home, the report said.

"Although ISIS has lost almost all of its territory, ISIL has proven resilient, especially through its efforts to inspire and guide its followers online," said Nathan Sills, coordinator of counterterrorism efforts whose office prepares the report with congressional authorization.

"In addition, terrorists experienced in fighting pose new risks after returning home from war zones in Syria and Iraq or traveling to third countries."

The group declared the Caliphate in 2014 after taking control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, and took the Syrian city of Raqqa as its capital and used it as a base to stage attacks in Europe.

In 2017, ISIL lost control of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria and soon lost almost all of its territory to a US-backed campaign. The group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed last month in Syria in a raid by US special forces.

World leaders welcomed his death. But leaders and security experts have warned that the group, which has committed atrocities against religious minorities and terrorized most Muslims, remains a security threat in Syria and elsewhere.

The group confirmed in an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday the killing of Baghdadi, said he had chosen a successor named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi, also vowed to avenge the United States.