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Several Saudi royals and religious leaders have laid into the United Arab Emirates’ envoy to Washington for comments hinting at the establishment of secular governments in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, a kingdom governed by the Sharia law. Youssef Read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the regional countries having boycotted Qatar over its alleged support for terrorism, Saturday welcomed the Qatari ruler’s proposal for dialogue to end the unprecedented Gulf crisis, but demanded that Doha changes its attitude. Read more
The Qatari ruler Thursday issued decrees amending the country’s counterterrorism laws, few days after the isolated Gulf state signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the US on the fight against terrorism funding. The new decrees by Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Read more
Saudi Arabia and its allies, which are boycotting Qatar, have presented Doha with six principles to be fulfilled in what appears an abandonment of the 13 demands issued last month as conditions to be fulfilled by Qatar for the normalization Read more
US officials have opposed plans by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to woo UN-backed unity government’s military support, the Misrata-based powerful militia, which largely protect the weak UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and which is opposed to Read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was reportedly behind the incendiary statements attributed to Qatar’s ruler, which ignited the diplomatic row between tiny gas-rich gulf country and its neighbors, Washington Post reports citing unidentified US intelligence officials. Qatar came in the 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
A Palestinian farmer in the West Bank has announced he is offering his house to Doha-based al Jazeera, threatened with shutdown by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Bahrain and Egypt as part of conditions set to normalize ties Read more
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt announced Tuesday that they received Doha’s response to the 13-demand list they had asked their neighbor to fulfill before they lift the blockade imposed on it, demands Qatar deem unrealistic Read more
Saad al-Kaabi, Head of Qatar Petroleum (QP), stated on Monday that the country “will remain the leader of LNG for a very long time” as he unveiled plans to increase the output of Liquefied Natural Gas by 30%, from 77 Read more