Tag: Qatar

(Saudi Arabia/Qatar) Saudi Arabia to reopen Qatar embassy in coming days (Al Jazeera)

Saudi Arabia expects to reopen its embassy in Doha in the coming days, the kingdom’s foreign minister has said, following an agreement last week...

(Qatar/Saudi Arabia) First Qatar to Saudi flight takes off after thaw in relations (Al Jazeera)

Saudia airline will fly from Riyadh to Doha later on Monday with services from Jeddah expected to start at later date. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/11/first-qatar-to-saudi-flight-to-take-off-after-thaw

(Qatar) Unresolved Issues Remain as Qatar Blockade Ends (Anchal Vohra, ORF)

Three years after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt embargoed trade and travel with Qatar, the blockade was lifted at the Gulf...

(Qatar/Saudi Arabia) Qatar-Saudi land border reopens after Gulf crisis detente (Al Arabiya)

Vehicles have crossed the Saudi Arabian land border from Qatar for the first time since four Arab states severed diplomatic and transport ties with...

(Saudi Arabia/USA/Qatar) Saudi carves path out of US partisan politics with Qatar detente (Patricia Sabga, Al Jazeera)

The sight of President Donald Trump’s supporters storming the United States Capitol on Wednesday laid bare an American political landscape that has become destructively...

(UAE/Qatar) UAE to reopen land, sea, air borders with Qatar on Saturday (Al Jazeera)

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will reopen all of its land, sea and air entry points with Qatar starting on Saturday, state news agency...

(Qatar) Qatar thaw a sign of shifting sands in Gulf (Navdeep Suri, ORF)

The smile and the hug with which Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) received the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Al Thani on...

(Qatar) Qatar Crisis: A Beginning to the End? (Sanam Vakil, Chatham House)

5 January 2021 marked the formal beginning of the end of the three-and-a-half-year Qatar crisis. GCC leaders, including the Qatari Emir Tamim and Saudi...

(Qatar) Bank deal creates second-largest lender in Qatar (Al Jazeera)

Qatar’s Masraf Al Rayan and Al Khalij Commercial Bank have agreed to join forces in a deal that will create Qatar’s second-biggest lender after...

UAE says travel, trade with Qatar may resume within a week (Al Jazeera)

Arab states boycotting Qatar could resume travel and trade links with Doha within a week under a United States-backed deal, but restoring diplomatic ties...

What does Saudi-Qatar reconciliation signal for the Biden administration? (Bruce Riedel and Adrianna Pita, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/what-does-saudi-qatar-reconciliation-signal-for-the-biden-administration/

QATAR/GCC – ‘Welcome development’: Reaction to the Qatar-GCC agreement (Al Jazeera)

The Saudi foreign minister has said Saudi Arabia and its three Arab allies agree to restore full ties with Qatar. His remarks came after Gulf...

QATAR – How the Gulf crisis spurred Qatar to expand its military (Alex Gatopoulos, Al Jazeera)

Qatar has embarked on one of the most ambitious armament programmes seen in the Middle East in recent times. Its armed forces are growing...

QATAR – Why the Qatar blockade should remain in place (Mohamed Alodadi, Al Arabiya)

Since Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain severed diplomatic relations with the Qatar and imposed an air, land, and sea embargo, the country...

QATAR – Qatar celebrates National Day 2020 amid COVID pandemic (Al Jazeera)

Qatar celebrates its National Day on Friday amid coronavirus-related restrictions and a continuing diplomatic spat with neighbouring countries that seems to be easing. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/18/qatar-celebrates-national-day-2020-amid-covid-pandemic

QATAR/PALESTINIAN PEOPLE – Qatar reiterates stance ‘in supporting Palestinian people’ (Al Jazeera)

Qatar has reiterated its stance “in supporting the Palestinian people and their just cause” just days after Morocco became the latest country to announce...