Ministry of Interior (Arab Union)

In the Union of Arab Republics (UAR; informally the Arab Union), most domestic affairs including law enforcement are the responsibility of the governorates, the respective governments of each republic (federated state). As such, each governorate controls its own Ministry of Interior (Arabic: وزارة الداخلية wuzārat ad-dākhiliyah), which oversees the republic's National Police, corrections and related public security duties.

For example, civilian law enforcement in the Lebanese Arab Republic is the purview of the Lebanese National Police, an agency or directorate of the Ministry of Interior of Lebanon, which is an executive department of the Governorate of Lebanon, the highest executive authority in the republic which is headed by the democratically elected Governor of Lebanon.

The few law enforcement matters which come under federal jurisdiction are the responsibility of the Judicial Police or rarely the Joint Security Committee (the national security agency of the Arab Union); according to the Constitution of the Arab Union, matters affecting two or more republics simultaneously or the union as a whole come under federal jurisdiction.

List of interior ministries
Below is a list of each interior ministry by republic:


 * Ministry of Interior (Algeria)
 * Ministry of Interior (Bahrain)
 * Ministry of Interior (Egypt)
 * Ministry of Interior (Gulf Republic)
 * Ministry of Interior (Iraq)
 * Ministry of Interior (Jordan)
 * Ministry of Interior (Kuwait)
 * Ministry of Interior (Lebanon)
 * Ministry of Interior (Libya)
 * Ministry of Interior (Mauritania)
 * Ministry of Interior (Morocco)
 * Ministry of Interior (Oman)
 * Ministry of Interior (Palestine)
 * Ministry of Interior (Peninsular Republic)
 * Ministry of Interior (Qatar)
 * Ministry of Interior (Sudan)
 * Ministry of Interior (Syria)
 * Ministry of Interior (Tunisia)
 * Ministry of Interior (Western Sahara)
 * Ministry of Interior (Yemen)