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The Qatar diplomatic crisis was a high-profile incident involving the deterioration of ties between Qatar and the Arab League between 2017 and 2021. It began when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt simultaneously severed their bilateral relations with Qatar and subsequently banned Qatar-registered aircraft and Qatari ships from utilizing their sovereign territory by air ...
Ending a bitter rift between Qatar and several Arab countries, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced that the trade and travel blockade it led for more than three years against its tiny but super rich ...
Qatar's defense minister Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah called the blockade akin to a bloodless declaration of war, and Qatar's finance minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi stated that Qatar is rich enough to withstand the blockade. [24] [25] On 24 August 2017, Qatar announced that they would restore full diplomatic relations with Iran. [20]
The UAE and Qatar have shared diplomatic relations since the formation of the UAE in 1971. However, on 5 June 2017, as part of the Qatar diplomatic crisis, the UAE cut diplomatic relations with Qatar. [4] On 6 January 2021, Qatar and the UAE agreed to fully restore diplomatic ties. [5]
Egyptian and Qatari mediators were working to salvage the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, according to Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News TV, which is close to the country's ...
Qatar pledges aid for Gaza as more trucks cross into the territory ... Before this latest Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza was under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade that allowed the entry of ...
Qatar has also been accused of influencing news outlets, including Al Jazeera, to report unfavorably on the UAE. [22] It was claimed by journalist Brian Whitaker that the UAE used Global Network for Rights and Development, an NGO to which it has ties, as a political tool. Whitaker claimed that the organization showed favoritism in its 2014 ...
Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Monday to end the war in Gaza, an official briefed on the negotiations said, after a midnight "breakthrough" in talks attended by envoys ...