The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, has denounced the demand for Qatar to shut down its Al-Jazeera news network as an “unacceptable” attack on freedom of expression.
Following a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani issued a statement calling Saudi Arabia’s demands on his country “unreasonable” and “false.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Demonstrators organized by the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) gathered outside the embassy of the Islamic terrorist-linked country of Qatar, chanting, “Stop killing Christians” and “stop terror.”
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said his country wants to bolster ties with Qatar and rejected a Saudi-led blockade of the Gulf Arab emirate.
TEL AVIV — Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the ruler of Qatar, has started enlisting the help of Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon to secure his family and his rule, according to a report in Youm7 (seventh day), an Egyptian newspaper aligned with President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.
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TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is considering a Camp David-style summit in an effort to resolve tensions between U.S. allies in the Arab world. Trump also intends to use the summit to renew his call for the Arab world confront the “crisis of Islamic extremism,” Fox News reported.
A top United Arab Emirates official said Saturday the Arab countries isolating Qatar do not seek to force out the country’s leadership over allegations it supports extremist ideology but are willing to cut ties altogether if it does not agree to their demands.
TEL AVIV — President Barack Obama ignored repeated warnings from Sunni Arab countries about Qatar ties to jihadist organizations in Syria and other places, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
On Thursday night, the Associated Press reported that Kuwait, acting as an emissary for the other nations blockading Qatar, presented the Qatari government with a list of thirteen specific demands, with just 10 days to comply.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz made a surprise announcement on Wednesday morning that his son Mohammed bin Salman, 31, would become the new crown prince of the kingdom.
LONDON (AP) — British regulators charged Barclays bank and four former executives, including then-CEO John Varley, with conspiracy to commit fraud when they asked Qatar for a cash infusion to avoid a government bailout at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.
(AFP) — Saudi Arabia said on Monday that it captured three Iranian Revolutionary Guards aboard an explosive-laden boat heading to an oil platform in the Gulf, further ratcheting up tensions in the region.
TEL AVIV – A large-scale campaign urging President Donald Trump to put pressure on Qatar, including imposing economic sanctions if necessary, is being launched Monday by a U.S.-based interfaith group.
Israel and Saudi Arabia have reportedly been holding talks to establish economic ties, according to British newspaper The Times, which cited American and Arab sources in its report.
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Former President Barack Obama’s administration, in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl, transferred five high-level Taliban prisoners from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay to Qatar, known for its Islamic terrorist-friendly environment.
On Wednesday, Secretary of Defense James Mattis signed a deal to sell $12 billion worth of American F-15 fighter jets to Qatar, which is currently undergoing a severe diplomatic breach with other Arab nations and has been called into account for its support of terrorism by President Donald Trump.
US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and his Qatari counterpart Khalid al-Attiyah signed a letter of agreement Wednesday for a $12-billion sale of US-manufactured F-15 fighters, the Pentagon said.
In light of the political escalation between Qatar and the Gulf states resulting from the severing of ties between several Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the Saudi media outlet Al Arabiya has claimed one man serves as “the Qatari engineer of the financing” of terror in Yemen.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mulling shutting down the Jerusalem bureau of Qatari media outlet Al-Jazeera, Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday.
Law enforcement from the capital of the autonomous Kurdish Region in northern Iraq has arrested at least seven aid workers from a Qatari charity group in connection with a mass poisoning incident at a camp for displaced residents of Mosul that has made about 800 people sick and may have killed two others.
The government of Sunni-majority Qatar has long hosted and legitimized political leaders from the terrorist organizations known as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), the Hamas Palestinian movement, and more recently the Afghan Taliban.
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Iran is sending food to the isolated Gulf emirate of Qatar as neighboring states continue their boycott against it, a boycott touched off partly by Qatar’s close relations with Tehran.
President Donald Trump praised his administration’s effort to combat terrorism, citing the importance of the Middle East to stop funding extremist and terrorist groups.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has sent five planes of food to Qatar, Iran’s national carrier told AFP on Sunday, days after Gulf countries cut off air and other transport links to the emirate.
In 2007, then-Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad told the US Treasury’s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence Stuart Levey that Qatar provides “more support to fundamentalists than Kuwait or Saudi Arabia. Qatar was “willfully bad,” Fayyad said.
In light of the Arab boycott of Qatar due to its support for terrorism, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said in an interview with the Russian RT channel during his visit to Moscow that in the eyes of Arab countries, Hamas is a legitimate resistance movement.
TEL AVIV – The Saudi daily Al-Riyadh published a column on Tuesday urging Arabs to accept that Iran, and not Israel, is the real enemy.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump brought carrots and sticks, respectively, to the dispute between Qatar and several other Arab nations on Friday. Soon after Tillerson called for an end to the diplomatic crisis, Trump said a news conference that Qatar “unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”
President Trump on Friday called on Qatar to stop funding extremism in the Middle East, applauding a recent decision by Gulf allies to cut ties with the nation.
The Sunni Arab states aligned against their old Gulf Cooperation Council partner Qatar stepped up their boycott a notch on Friday by putting together an actual blacklist of alleged terrorism financiers linked to the Qatari government.
Far from backing down in the face of unprecedented pressure from Gulf rivals, Qatar’s foreign minister said Thursday that no other country could determine its policies.
The Al-Jazeera news network, based in Qatar’s capital Doha and funded by the Qatari government, has not merely suffered collateral damage from the Gulf diplomatic crisis but has been cited as a key element of it.
Bahrain became the latest Arab state to ban its people from expressing support of Qatar, warning in a statement Thursday that anyone doing so could be jailed for up to five years and be fined.
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Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir called on Qatar to end its support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood amid a deepening rift between the Arab Gulf states.
TEL AVIV — In wake of the decision of a number of Arab states to sever ties with Qatar and in light of a significant social media campaign against the small kingdom, Qatar’s supporters have decided to take up the fight online. Among other things, the nation’s supporters are accusing those against Qatar of supporting Israel.
