Qatar has not taken any initiative to solve the problems with Bahrain, despite an agreement to end a rift of more than three years, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani said on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and (...)
Egypt agreed with Qatar to resume diplomatic relations between them, according to the Egyptian foreign ministry announced.
"Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Qatar exchanged, today, January 20, 2021, two official memoranda, in virtue of which (...)
A Qatari foreign ministry official pledged in a meeting with Egyptian and Emirati security officials on Saturday that Qatar would not interfere in Egypt's internal affairs, two Egyptian intelligence sources told Reuters.
He also pledged a change of (...)
Qatar Airways and EgyptAir resumed on Monday flights to the two countries' capitals after Egypt ended a three-and-half year boycott of Doha and reopened its airspace to the Gulf Kingdom.
A Qatar Airways flight carrying 100 passengers arrived from (...)
The details of the reconciliation agreement between Qatar and its neighbours, signed at Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit two weeks ago, still haven't been made public. But Riyadh is fast-tracking the restoration of full diplomatic relations (...)
Saudi Arabia expects to re-open its embassy in Qatar in the coming days, Saudi's foreign minister said on Saturday, following a U.S.-backed detente last week in a three-year-old dispute between Arab states.
It is just a matter of logistics, Saudi (...)
Fiji, the favourite of Western nations, won the presidency of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, beating Bahrain and Uzbekistan in a secret ballot that resolved a tense deadlock over the selection.
The vote was called after an impasse that (...)
وجه وزير الخارجية الأمريكي مايك بومبيو، الشكر ل 7 دول من بينها 3 دول عربية لمساهمتها في حماية مضيق هرمز، وذلك قبيل تنصيب الرئيس المنتخب جو بايدن.
وقال بومبيو في تغريدة له عبر تويتر، الأربعاء 13 يناير، "أشكر البحرين وبريطانيا وألبانيا وليتوانيا (...)
Bahrain's Bank ABC completed its purchase of the Egyptian subsidiary of Lebanon's Blom Bank for $480 million on Thursday, two banking sources said.
The transaction included all Blom Bank Egypt's physical and non-physical assets as well as customer (...)
EgyptAir said it will restart flights to Doha starting Monday, only a few days after Egypt officially lifted a three-and-half-year airspace ban on the Gulf country.
In an official statement on Thursday, EgyptAir said it will operate a daily flight (...)
أعرب مايك بومبيو، وزير الخارجية الأمريكية، عن شكره للسعودية والإمارات والبحرين وألبانيا ودول أخرى على حماية مضيق هرمز من إيران، مضيفا: "ساعدنا في تشكيل هيئة دولية لحماية مضيق هرمز من انتهاكات إيران".
وقال وزير الخارجية الأمريكية عبر حسابه الرسمي (...)
EgyptAir announced on Tuesday evening plans to operate a daily flight to the Qatari capital Doha, a day after Egypt lifted a three-and-half-year airspace ban on the Gulf country.
The national flagship carrier may operate a second flight to Doha if (...)
In June 2017, Egypt joined three Gulf countries – Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain – in severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, starting a total boycott of the small country. Qatar's national carrier was no longer allowed to fly to the four countries (...)
Lebanon's Sunni Muslim leader Saad Al-Hariri had a business lunch with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Istanbul, in a meeting that neither man tried to keep secret. Soon after the talks, which lasted for a couple of hours, were (...)
The reconciliation agreement with Qatar signed by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain last week “is supposed to end three years of difference between the Quartet states and Qatar” said a diplomat speaking on condition of (...)
When Omar Hazem, a young Egyptian engineer working in Qatar since 2015, knew that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain had agreed to restore full diplomatic ties with Doha at the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting last (...)
In a new twist to the crisis in Yemen, Washington has decided to designate the Yemeni Ansarallah Movement, also known as the Houthis, as a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO). In a statement released on 10 January, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (...)
The last chapter in the most controversial US presidential elections in living memory unfolded on 7 January when thousands of outgoing US president Donald Trump's supporters stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, the seat of the US government (...)
The start of the Formula One season has been delayed after the Australian Grand Prix was postponed from March to November because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Australian race in Melbourne has been rescheduled from March 21 to Nov. 21. The Chinese (...)
Organisers of the Chinese Grand Prix say they have asked Formula One management to move the Shanghai race from April to later in the 2021 calendar, Motorsport.com has reported.
"We have been in contact (with F1) via conference call almost every (...)
Qatari vehicles crossed into Saudi Arabia through a land border on Saturday for the first time since Arab states severed diplomatic and transport ties with Doha in mid-2017, Saudi state TV said, following a deal this week to restore relations.
“It's (...)
As of 6 January, Egypt has been among the countries with the highest reported number of coronavirus-related deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean region, after Iran, Iraq and Pakistan, the World Health Organisation's Regional Office for the Eastern (...)
Russia and China are opposed to a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating a deadlock just as the United States may seek to rejoin the forum it quit in 2018. (...)
The United Arab Emirates will reopen all its land, sea and air entry points with Qatar starting Saturday, state news agency WAM reported on Friday.
Saudi Arabia announced a breakthrough in ending a dispute between Gulf Arab states and Qatar at a (...)
The embrace that Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman gave Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on the latter's arrival in Saudi Arabia after three and a half years of rupture between the two countries signalled the beginning of a resolution to the (...)
