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Saudi and Emirati national football eams arrived in Qatar Monday to take part in the Arabia Gulf Cup though they initially gave a cold shoulder to the tournament taking place in the tiny gas-rich country. Both received an official welcome Read more
Egypt’s Zamalek football Club will not play the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Super Cup set to take place in Qatar February next year, the Egyptian team’s boss Mortada Mansour has said. The announcement came amid ongoing diplomatic showdown between Read more
Egypt’s foreign minister has ruled out a “soon” ending to the over 2-year old isolation of Qatar noting that the tiny Gulf country has shown no desire to meet conditions set by the quartet that include Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Read more
Qatar brushed aside a New York Times’ report it was involved in a May bomb attack in the Somalian city of Bosaso, Al Jazeera reports. The New York Times in a Monday report said audio recording provided by a foreign Read more
A senior UAE minister Tuesday indicated that the diplomatic rift between Qatar and its neighbors including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt is likely to drag on in the New Year despite calls for an end. “In my estimation, Read more
UAE’s minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash brushed aside claims by the Qatari Emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, that his country, currently locked up in a diplomatic row with neighbors, is keen to enter into dialogue Read more
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani Tuesday said Qatar’s economy has grown stronger despite the sea/air/land blockade his country has been facing for over one year as a result of diplomatic rift with four Arab countries, led by Read more
Qatar’s top army commander attended Monday the Gulf Cooperation Council Supreme Military Committee (GCC-SMC) held in Kuwait, amid ongoing diplomatic crisis opposing the gas-rich country to Saudi Arabia and its allies namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt. Read more
Former U.S. Secretary of State lost his job after he ruined plans by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to militarily invade Qatar amid the ongoing diplomatic showdown opposing the peninsula and its neighbors, The Intercept reports citing Read more
Jordan has alluded to normalizing ties with Qatar after relations between the two countries were scaled down at the beginning of the ongoing diplomatic crisis opposing the tiny gas-rich country to its neighbors. Jordan’s labor minister Samir Murad on Tuesday Read more