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It has been a big week for Qatar in the international headlines, with a Saudi and UAE-sponsored severing of diplomatic relations and closure of airspace. These moves, along with several other dramatic escalations, have dragged out into the…

Areeb Ullah Questions continue to dog the UK government over its relationship with Saudi Arabia just days before the general election. Opposition parties called on the government to release a report into the foreign funding of…

Marwa Osman About the tension between Qatar and Saudi , they started surfacing, to begin with, in 2011… But I think people who are harboring terrorism are now accusing other people who are also harboring terrorism of harboring terrorism.…

Suraj Sharma Turkey could find itself playing the hero that comes to Qatar’s rescue in the first crucial decision Ankara will have to make since embarking on its eastward-looking policy. The Saudis have launched a major diplomatic…

AbdulKareem The attack on the tanker “MT Muski” in Bab Al-Mandab was a Zionist American-Western show to begin direct intervention in Yemen under the pretext of protecting international navigation. In fact, the Bab Al-Mandab…

Qatar may not only leave the Wahhabi sect it will lea the GCC soon as well if the escalation was to proceed with its present pace or even become worse By Abdel Bari Atwan The State of Qatar was expected to pull out its ambassadors from…

Amen Abdulkareem New Propaganda for the Alliance of Aggression as the enemy forces are trying to use a pretext for more foreign presence in Bab al-Mandab The pursuit of direct control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the…

By Ali Shihabi executive director of the Arabia Foundation, a Washington-based think tank focused on the geopolitics of the Arabian Peninsula.  Terrorism is a problem that we all still struggle to understand. That challenge only…

By Fareed Zakaria This week’s bombing in Manchester, England, was another gruesome reminder that the threat from radical Islamist terrorism is ongoing. And President Trump’s journey to the Middle East illustrated yet again how the…

By Daniel Larison But what was that orb? The answer was: the official launch button for a new Global Centre for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh. Not a single commentator considered for one second that this might be…