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Saudi Arabia and its anti-Qatar allies have seemingly dropped their demand to shut down the Doha-based Al Jazeera news channel as a prominent minister of one the boycotting countries spoke of restructuring the world network instead of its complete closure. Read more
Qatar Tuesday reiterated its support to the Palestinians and to Gaza people pointing out that it will continue assisting in the reconstruction effort despite its isolation by other gulf countries, among which Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt. Read more
Qatar armed forces Tuesday announced that more Turkish troops landed in the tiny gas-rich gulf country as part of military drill operation between the two armies. Turkey at the onset of the crisis between Qatar and its neighbors led by Read more
The Egyptian army has appeared in US-based military analysis Global Fire Power’s 2017 review of 133 world armies as the top army in the Arab world and the 10th on the world ranking, dominated by the United States and its Read more
A Bahraini court Monday convicted in absentia the country’s top activist over alleged fake news on the situation of the country that he disseminated during televised interviews in January 2015. Nabeel Rajab who is currently in hospital was handed two-year Read more
Activists have charged Abu Dhabi and called for the release of a young Emirati arrested for expressing sympathy for Qatar amid the diplomatic row between the tiny gas-rich country and the Saudi-led bloc including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain Read more
Unconfirmed reports and social media accounts in both Egypt and Palestine have indicated that three members of the Hamas Islamist movement were involved in the Islamic State group (IS)-linked attacks, which killed 23 Egyptian soldiers Friday in the Sinai, Asharq Read more
Head of Suez Canal authority Friday indicated that it would be illegal to ban Qatari ships from using the canal passage but that Egypt can deny ships docking as part of its sovereignty over its territorial waters. Saudi Arabia, the Read more
A bomb attack against a police patrol in Al-Musawara neighbourhood, in Qatif, eastern region, left one officer dead on Thursday, making the second attack in the same area this week. Officer Abdullah Treiki Al-Turki died in the attack, which also Read more
German foreign minister Thursday announced that Qatar is willing to share intelligence on some individuals and organizations accused of terrorism by the Saudi-led bloc, which charges the tiny gas-rich country for sponsoring terrorism. Sigmar Gabriel told Deutschlandfunk radio that Qatar Read more