The 39th annual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit took place in Riyadh as the body is ridden with crises including regional disunity, challenges to sovereignty and the diminishing international reputation of Saudi Arabia, the biggest member state. The GCC, made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, was[…]
Qatar’s Attorney General has confirmed that independent investigations have proven that Saudi Arabia and the UAE were involved in hacking into the official Qatar News Agency last year. Ali bin Fetais Al-Marri pledged to sue the two countries for “piracy” before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Al-Marri[…]
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say air raids by the Saudi-UAE military alliance have killed dozens of civilians, most of them children, in a reported incident two weeks after a coalition air attack on a school bus killed 40 boys. According to the Houthi movement’s Al Masirah TV, 22 children and four[…]
The government of Qatar took the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday, accusing it of human rights violations as a result of a boycott enacted last year. The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a boycott on Qatar in June 2017,[…]
Saudi Arabia has plans to dig a canal the length of its border with Gulf rival Qatar, to turn the peninsula into an island and further isolate it, Saudi media have said. “The project is to be funded entirely by Saudi and Emirati private sector investment — under full Saudi[…]
A Lebanese-American businessman with close ties the United Arab Emirates crown prince organised a meeting of Arab leaders on a yacht in the Red Sea three years ago and proposed to start an “elite group” that would supersede the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), according to a news report. George Nader’s[…]
Qatar’s central bank has asked US regulators to investigate an Emirati bank that Doha accuses of waging “financial warfare” against it. Qatar claims NBAD Americas, the US subsidiary of First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), is engaging in “bogus” foreign exchange deals intended to undermine the Qatari riyal and harm its[…]
Last week, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced a grant of $160m for “development projects” in crisis-hit Maldives, raising questions on the motive behind the move. “As part of the support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Saudi Fund for Development[…]
A senior Yemeni official has told Al Jazeera that southern separatists, backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), seized control of a key military base in the coastal city of Aden, after a UAE fighter jet bombed the facility. The official told Al Jazeera that fighters from the Southern Resistance[…]
An Egyptian secret service agent ordered a prominent TV host to prepare a showreel of footage to discredit former presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq as a Muslim Brotherhood sympathiser, according to a leaked conversation. Audio of conversations between the agent Captain Ashraf al-Kholi and the host Azmi Megahed, broadcast by the[…]
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