A Qatari envoy overseeing the Gulf state’s humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip said on Monday that he had proposed building an airport in the blockaded Palestinian enclave but...

Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz yesterday criticised the Islamic Republic of Iran for what he said was the republic’s “interference in the internal affairs of neighbouring countries”. “The Iranian...

A Gulf Arab summit called for regional unity as Bahrain and Qatar traded barbs over the Qatari emir’s decision not to attend the gathering in Saudi Arabia on Sunday...

Bahrain’s foreign minister criticised Qatar’s emir on Sunday for not attending an annual Gulf Arab summit in Saudi Arabia, a decision that shows there is little hope for an...

The President of Qatar’s National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) has said the European Union (EU) must do more to end the humanitarian tragedy caused by the ongoing blockade of...

Saudi Arabian authorities on Friday released a Qatari citizen after one year of detention, keeping three others in custody. The National Qatari Committee for Human Rights confirmed that the...

Qatar paid the salaries of nearly 30,000 Gazan civil servants on Friday, delighting the impoverished workers but angering some in the deeply divided Palestinian leadership who balked at the...

by Abderrahmane Amor and Nazmus Sakib On 5 June 2017, the people of Qatar woke to the news that an air, land and sea blockade had been imposed on...

The UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash has once again accused Qatar of supporting extremism and interfering in issues that affect regional stability days before the...

The decision by the State of Qatar to leave the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by January 2019 has raised eyebrows and set off speculation as to...

The widespread rejection of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s visit to their countries by some Arab political and cultural elites indicates the great damage done to the...

Saudi Arabia has told the WTO that national security concerns mean it cannot allow the world trade body to settle an intellectual property dispute with Qatar, according to a...

  Qatar has announced that is withdrawing from OPEC in January, ending a near-six decade long membership of the oil price cartel. The emirates’ oil minister, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi,...

November was an extraordinary month for normalisation between Arab states and Israel. You would think that Israel had settled its disputes with its neighbours — perhaps accepting and implementing...

Qatar and the United Kingdom have agreed to further strengthen bilateral trade and investment relations as well as enhance other fields of cooperation especially education, health, banking, engineering, development...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Algeria on Sunday from Mauritania, resuming a tour of Arab countries after attending the G20 summit in Argentina, Reuters reports. Prime Minister...

Member of Hamas’ political bureau Mahmoud Al-Zahar announced that he is heading a Palestinian parliamentary delegation on a foreign tour aimed at mobilising support for the Palestinian people. In...

Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdel-Latif Zayyani is to visit Qatar to hand over the invitation of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdel-Aziz to Qatari Emir...

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Qatar will more than double its naval forces by 2025 as a massive new base comes online and it expands a national service programme amid a protracted dispute with...

The Palermo conference on Libya went ahead as scheduled — 12/13 November — with all of the local protagonists present, along with many regional and international players. Italy finally...

From Khartoum, where the Arab summit in late August 1967 announced its Three No’s: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with it, a leader...

The chairman of EgyptAir, Ahmed Adel, announced on Monday “heavy losses” following the country’s participation in the Gulf blockade, which has been imposed on Qatar for the second year...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince, Mohamed Bin Salman, yesterday reaffirmed their commitment to the over a year-long Qatar blockade, Al-Arabiya has reported. In June 2017,...

FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, believes that football has the power to "build bridges"

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Qatar National Bank (QNB) owns 40% of Commercial Bank International, which in turn holds 40% of the United Arab Bank. Both these UAE banks experienced a fall in assets, customer deposits and loans since the start of the crisis

Qatar’s foreign minister said on Thursday that “whoever is responsible” for the murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi should be held accountable, Reuters reports. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani...

The United Arab Emirates has asked Sudan to mediate reconciliation efforts with Qatar, a senior Qatari official told Quds Press. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said...

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Wednesday that US bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar, and US aircraft carriers in the Gulf were within range of Iranian...

Egyptian officials’ successful intervention to help end last week’s escalation in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip came “despite Hamas’ scepticism of Israel’s commitment to a ceasefire that was subsequently reached”,...

The President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding has claimed that the six Gulf States are competing with each other over who will be first to establish diplomatic relations...