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No Qatar dialogue unless conditions met- Four Arab countries

July 30, 2017

Manama (MDW Live) – Four Arab countries boycotting Qatar are ready for dialogue to ease the dispute if Doha agrees to certain demands, Bahrain’s foreign minister said on Sunday after a meeting with his counterparts. Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa [...]

Look ‘beyond crisis’ and look to establish new relations to replace old- UAE FM Anver Gargash

July 26, 2017

(MDW Live) Dubai – Anver Ghargash UAE State minister for Foreign Affair today said that it was important to look ‘beyond crisis’ and look to establish new relations and in the process replace old ones. In a series of tweets he said today that, “now that Qatar crisis has [...]

Gulf Countries Indicate Some Flexibility on Demands on Qatar

July 19, 2017

Senior diplomats from the four Arab countries that have broken ties with Qatar indicated Tuesday that they were no longer insisting on 13 precise demands that the Qataris must satisfy, or on a specific deadline for them to comply. The remarks by the diplomats from Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi [...]

SITUATION REPORT: Arab states angry over Qatar’s dismissal of their demands

July 5, 2017

CAIRO (AP) — Four Arab nations seeking to isolate Qatar over its alleged support for extremist groups were angered Wednesday by what they said was a “negative” response by the tiny Gulf nation to their demands for ending the crisis roiling the region. Doha’s response, they said, was “not [...]

Qatar deadline extended by 48 hours: Saudi

July 3, 2017

Saudi Arabia and its allies said early Monday they had decided to extend by 48 hours the deadline for Qatar to accept their list of demands to lift a de facto blockade.With the deadline expiring at midnight Sunday, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt agreed to give Doha an [...]

US to allow electronic devices in Etihad Airways departing AbuDhabi

July 2, 2017

The United States has granted permission to the UAE’s Etihad Airways for personal electronic devices to be allowed in the cabins of US-bound aircraft departing Abu Dhabi, American authorities said Sunday. The move comes more than three months after the United States prohibited such devices on [...]

Qatar’s neighbors issue long list of demands to end crisis

June 23, 2017

Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations that have cut ties to Qatar issued a long list of demands Thursday to end the crisis, insisting that their Gulf neighbor shut down Al-Jazeera, scale back ties to Iran and close a Turkish military base in Qatar. In a 13-point list issued to Qatar, the Arab nations [...]

UAE has secret torture prisons in Yemen, US involved in interrogations – AP

June 23, 2017

The UAE operates a network of ‘black sites’ in war-torn Yemen, where terrorist suspects are abused and tortured, an AP investigation has found. US personnel have been involved in at least some interrogations, agency sources said.There are at least 18 clandestine prisons across southern Yemen [...]

No negotiation until sanctions dropped, says Qatari foreign minister

June 20, 2017

Qatar will not negotiate with Gulf states that have cut economic and travel ties with it unless they reverse their sanctions, its foreign minister has said. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Monday that Qatar had still not received any demands from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab [...]

Analysis: The New Assertive Generation of Gulf leaders at heart of Qatar rift

June 20, 2017

(Reuters-) Two years after launching headfirst into a conflict in Yemen that has no end in sight, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have astonished the world again, this time with a severe boycott of neighboring Qatar. Like the Yemen war, which has killed more than 10,000 people, the rift [...]