Reuters - Talks between Saudi Arabia and Qatar to heal their two-year rift are a good development for the whole Gulf region, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday in Doha. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic and trade links with Qatar in June 2017, accusing it of backing terrorism and aligning ...

Tasnim A Persian Gulf Arab summit called for regional unity as Bahrain and Qatar traded barbs over the Qatari emirs decision not to attend the gathering in Saudi Arabia on Sunday in a sign that a row between Doha and its neighbors is still festering. Qatar sent its state minister for foreign affairs to the annual one-day summit, which was overshadowed ...

Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she was concerned about the situation in Qatar, adding that all Persian Gulf nations, and also Iran and Turkey, should work together to resolve the regional dispute. Merkel, who was speaking in Mexico City alongside Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, said it would be impossible to sort ...

Press TV- Qatar's foreign minister says his country prefers diplomacy to resolve Doha's dispute with Saudi Arabia and its allies, stressing that there would never be a military solution to the crisis. "We don't see a military solution as an option" to the problem, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told reporters in Doha on Thursday. Saudi ...

Iranian Diplomacy- A clan of Arab states started their workweek by severing ties with a member of their own. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar on Monday, accusing it of support for Islamist militants and Iran, Reuters reported. Yemen, Libya's eastern-based government and the Maldives joined later. Transport ...

American Herald Tribune | Saurav Dutt: What makes Qatar distinctive other than its relatively small size within the Persian Gulf, is that it floats on large reserves of natural gas. The small peninsular nation now finds itself ostracised in a concerted move by its Middle East neighbours, with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen rounding ...

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: The crisis involving Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatar has caught the attention of Iranian media, with many outlets considering the crisis an opportunity for Iran's struggling economy while also warning the government not to take any sides in the "war among sheikhs." The first reaction in Iran came from President ...

Tasnim - Mauritania has announced the break-off of diplomatic relation with Qatar on Tuesday. Mauritania announced a break in the diplomatic ties with Qatar following Monday's severance of relations with Doha by a number of Arab and other countries, Mauritania's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "Qatar has worked for the advancement of ...

Press TV - The Kuwaiti emir has engaged in shuttle diplomacy to help mediate a solution to the dispute between Qatar on the one side and Saudi Arabia and its allies on the other, the biggest diplomatic crisis to hitthe Persian Gulfregion in years. Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported on Tuesday that Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al Sabah had ...

IFP - Saudi Arabia will not need the terrorists backyard anymore. In the new situation, the older brother needs a victim, whose name is Qatar. The mantle of radical Islam fits Qatar gracefully and it could help Saudi Arabia get rid of the heavy charge that it is the source of terrorism. Mahmoud Askarieh IFP Managing Editor Although ...

Sputnik - Saudi Arabia set out several conditions for Qatar to normalize the bilateral relations amid the diplomatic rift and gave Doha 24 hours for the implementation of the conditions, local media reported Wednesday. DUBAI (Sputnik) According toAkhbar Al Aan news outlet, the conditions included the expulsion ofall the members ofthe Muslim Brotherhood ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in separate phone conversations with German and Spanish counterparts Sigmar Gabriel and Alfonso Dastis respectively discussed latest regional developments. Zarif started consultations with his regional and international counterparts following the shocking fallout between Qatar and a number of Middle Eastern ...

AP -- The Latest on the Gulf crisis after Saudi Arabia and other nations cut ties to Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Turkey's prime minister says his country will press ahead with efforts to try and end a standoff between Qatar and its Arab neighbors through dialogue. In a speech to his ruling party's legislators ...

Sputnik News- Commenting on the diplomatic row in the Middle East, where seven countries have severed their diplomatic ties with Qatar, Russian political analysts suggested that Doha could stop providing financial support to Sunni radicals in Syria, but this is still a far cry from any rapprochement with Russia, despite its much criticized closer ties ...

IFP - Leading Arab journalist and political analyst Abdel Bari Atwan says a decision by a number of Arab states to cut diplomatic ties with Qatar may herald new development in the Arab world. Abdel Bari Atwan, the nationalist editor-in-chief of Ray al-Youm newspaper said in a post in his Twitter account that the move by Saudi Arabia ...

Sputnik - Three members of the Gulf Cooperation Council - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have severed diplomatic relations with Doha in response to allegations revelations Qatar finances terrorist groups. Egypt, the Maldives and Yemen have followed suit. However, a regional expert has told Sputnik the move is be a smokescreen. Bahrain ...

AP Kuwait is trying to mediate a diplomatic crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties to Qatar and moved to isolate the energy-rich, travel-hub nation from the outside world, Qatars foreign minister said early Tuesday. The biggest diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf region since the 1991 U.S.-led war against Iraq pits several nations ...

CNBC - A fierce spat between Qatar and leading Arab nations could see Doha shift closer to Turkey and Iran in a move that could alter Middle Eastern politics. Seven countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain, severed diplomatic ties with with the energy-rich monarchy on Monday, accusing it of backing Tehran ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talked on the phone with a number of his counterparts on the latest developments in the region, particularly the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf Arab states. In separate telephone conversations with foreign ministers of Turkey, Indonesia, Iraq, Oman, Tunisia, Malaysia, Lebanon, Algeria, Kuwait as well ...

Sputnik - The progress of the Astana talks on the Syrian settlement may be threatened by states cutting off diplomatic relations with Qatar, depending on Turkey and Iran's involvement in this diplomatic standoff, Tarek Ahmad, a member of the Damascus Platform opposition group and a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), told Sputnik ...