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A Bahrain court Thursday sentenced twenty people to life in prison and handed 15-year prison sentences to sixteen others on terrorism charges. The Supreme Court of the kingdom found the 26 defendants guilty of forming a “terrorist group” between 2011 Read more
US ambassador to Qatar Tuesday announced she was leaving her post this month and quitting the State Department, as the crisis between US Gulf allies lingers on and as Washington is sending mixed signals on the crisis. Ambassador Dana Shell Read more
Saudi authorities have extended bans on Qatar connections as they have criminalized donning of Spanish football giant club FC Barcelona’s kit. A new decree issued by authorities bans the club’s kit, which displays Qatar airways Logo. The Qatari national carrier Read more
Governor of Qatar’s Central Bank Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al-Thani has released a statement underlining that the ongoing diplomatic rift between Doha and its neighboring Gulf States has not affected its usual operations. “The banking transactions and procedures in the Read more
Iran has snubbed sea and air blockades imposed by Saudi-Arabia-led group and sent food stocks to isolated Qatar as the crisis between the tiny gas-rich country and its neighbors is worsening. Five planes loaded with 90 tons of food each Read more
The Libyan armed group Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB), opposed to Eastern-based Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of halting peace among Libyans and pointed at its covert plans to dominate the North African country through Read more
Bahrain Central Bank has ordained all banks operating in the tiny kingdom to freeze assets of the 12 organizations and 59 people put on the Qatar-linked terror blacklist. “The central bank issued a directive to all the financial institutions licensed Read more
Morocco, which has been following with great concern the deterioration in relations between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and other Arab countries on the one hand and Qatar on the other has offered its good offices to Read more
Germany Friday urged Saudi Arabia-led clique to end the blockade they have imposed on Qatar and urged both sides to find solution through diplomacy. Receiving his Qatari counterpart in Wolfenbuettel, a town in Lower Saxony, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel Read more
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have published a joint list identifying 59 individuals and 12 entities that are said to be linked to terrorism and funded by Qatar. UAE’s Minster of State Sultan al-Jaber in a Read more