Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday dismissed a claim by France that Tehran was in the process of building up its nuclear weapons, calling it "absurd nonsense".
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, in an interview with the (...)
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 (...)
Yemen's Houthi movement will not walk away from peace talks with the United Nations and Saudi Arabia despite the US decision to designate the Iran-aligned group as a foreign terrorist organisation, the Houthi chief negotiator told Reuters.
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Egypt on Tuesday reopened its airspace with Qatar and announced the resumption of flights between the two countries.
"The decision allows EgyptAir and Qatar Airways, as well as other Qatari airlines, to resume air traffic and send flight operating (...)
Sultan Haitham Bin Tarek Al-Said of Oman issued two royal decrees on Monday setting up a new legislative council for the country and establishing mechanisms to appoint a crown-prince and guarantee the stability and transfer of power.
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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 (...)
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 (...)
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.
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Saudi Airlines (Saudia) will operate flights from Riyadh and Jeddah to Doha, starting from Monday, the airline said in a tweet on Saturday.
On Monday, Saudi Arabia reopened its airspace to Qatar after a breakthrough towards resolving a political (...)
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 (...)
Qatar Airways will began rerouting some of its flights through Saudi airspace starting from Thursday evening, it said on Twitter.
"This evening Qatar Airways began to reroute some flights through Saudi airspace with the first scheduled flight (...)
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 (...)
2020 has not been, by all accounts, an ordinary year in human history. There were no global, regional or economic disasters. There was no cold war that made the international order descend into chaos. To the whole world's great surprise, it was a (...)
Talks held on the Qatari crisis during the Arab Quartet's boycott of Doha over the last three years had reached a dead end. This last round, however, proved to be a different story.
“Fruitful discussions have taken place during the past period, (...)
In 2017, a boycott had started in response to Doha's support for terrorist groups seeking to destabilise the region.
The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, attended the meeting of the Supreme Council of the GCC for the first time in four (...)
Qatar's ruling Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will attend a Gulf Arab summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the royal court said on Monday.
The confirmation of his participation came after a Kuwaiti minister announced that Saudi Arabia would (...)
A plane landed Sunday at the airport in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, officials said, the first commercial flight to arrive since the deadly missile attack last week on the facility that killed at least 25 people and wounded 110 others.
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Egypt condemned on Wednesday the targeting of Aden airport in the Republic of Yemen during the landing of the Yemeni president's plane, who was accompanied by members of the new cabinet, Egypt's foreign ministry said in a statement.
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Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Wednesday condemned in the attack that rocked the airport in Yemen's port city of Aden soon after a plane carrying the new government arrived from Saudi Arabia.
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Egypt's Minister of Emigration and Expatriates Affairs Nabila Makram said the Egyptian authorities will follow up on investigations into the murder of an Egyptian teacher in Saudi Arabia in coordination with the Egyptian embassy in Riyadh, according (...)
All flights between Egypt and the UK will continue until further notice, barring any sudden decisions from the government and Health Ministry, Chairman of the EgyptAir Holding Company Roshdy Zakaria announced on Monday.
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For the rest of the world, 2020 was mainly the year of the coronavirus pandemic and its implications, but for the Gulf region it was about more than that.
The negative economic impacts of the pandemic, coupled with weak oil prices, pushed (...)
To the dismay of Cairo, 2020 brought an end to four years of good chemistry-driven rapport between the Egyptian regime and the US administration. Indeed, US President Donald Trump's failure to secure re-election is one of the most annoying political (...)
Egypt's foreign ministry welcomed the announcement by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen to form a power-sharing cabinet between the Yemeni government and southern separatists, calling it “an important step” towards resolving the (...)
