United Arab Emirates: events and estimated deaths in March 2026

Monthly reportDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through 30 Sep 2026

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UCDP recorded 4 eventsP of organized violence in United Arab Emirates in March 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 5P. UCDP counts 3P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for February 2026 was 4 eventsP.

UCDP recorded no events in March 2025. United Arab Emirates holds 0 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in all countries with a page in March 2026. In March 2025, the share was 0 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.
An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date
UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through 30 Sep 2026. The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

The pages give counts and their sources. They give no travel, security or safety advice. A count of events is not a measure of danger.

Regions

The table has 10 regions at most.

Table 1. United Arab Emirates, March 2026: events and estimated deaths by region, in name order
Region	EventsP	Estimated deathsP
Abu Dhabi emirate	3	4
Dubay emirate	1	1

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Figure 1. Events in United Arab Emirates, March 2026. The map shows 4 events with 5 estimated deaths. One dot is one event at the place that UCDP gives. When a source names no exact place, UCDP puts the event at the centre of a region or of the country. The area of a dot follows the best estimate of deaths. The largest dot is for 330 deaths or more.1 death10 deaths100 deathsOutlines: Natural Earth, with the first-level areas of the UCDP data. An outline shows where the events are. It is not a statement about a border.

Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of United Arab Emirates has each event.

Table 2. United Arab Emirates, March 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
Date	Place	Sides, as UCDP writes them	Type of violence	Estimated deathsP	Low	High
7 Mar 2026	Dubay emirate	Government of Iran; Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	State-based	1	1	1
16 Mar 2026	Abu Dhabi emirate	Government of Iran; Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	State-based	1	1	1
17 Mar 2026	Abu Dhabi emirate	Government of Iran; Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	State-based	1	1	1
26 Mar 2026	Abu Dhabi emirate	Government of Iran; Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	State-based	2	2	2

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 3. United Arab Emirates: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of March 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes it	Events	Estimated deaths in these events
Government of Iran	4P	5P
Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	4P	5P

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Type of violence

Table 4. United Arab Emirates: events by type of violence, March 2026
Type of violence	Events	Share of events
State-based armed conflict	4P	100%
Non-state conflict	0	0%
One-sided violence against civilians	0	0%

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The glossary has the UCDP definition of each type.

All months

Table 5. Monthly reports of United Arab Emirates, newest first: events and estimated deaths
Month	Events	Estimated deaths	Dataset
April 2026	2P	2P	Candidate Events
March 2026	4P	5P	Candidate Events
February 2026	4P	5P	Candidate Events

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 20 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

United Arab Emirates: all figures

Cite this page

ConflictStats. United Arab Emirates: events and estimated deaths in March 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/united-arab-emirates/month/2026-03/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through 30 Sep 2026.

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