French UN ambassador raises risk of humanitarian catastrophe if government launches assault on rebel-held stronghold France has warned that escalating violence in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province will lead to a new humanitarian catastrophe as thousands [ More … ]
Dr. Said Elhaj* “Turkish Prime Minister Benali Yildirim was on a visit to the United States for several days.” This could have been normal news on a protocol visit between two “allies” unless the relations [ More … ]
Nearly six months into the blockade, Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani remains defiant yet open to dialogue with the blockading Gulf states. Demands imposed on Qatar by the four blockading Gulf states are not [ More … ]
Iraqi security forces have launched a “major operation” in the Kurdish-held region of Kirkuk, advancing towards oil fields and a strategic military base, according to Kurdish and Iraqi officials. The army captured several positions south [ More … ]
Qatar denied claims it made calls to internationalise Hajj but did criticise how the pilgrimage was being ‘politicised’ by Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has described criticisms by Qatar of restrictions on access of its citizens [ More … ]
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday held a consultative meeting with heads of governmental and private sector organisations, as well as the largest trade union in the country to contain a crisis between the two [ More … ]
United Nations humanitarian organizations in the occupied Palestinian territory appealed on Monday for funding to address the “spiraling” situation in the besieged Gaza Strip. According to a statement published by the UN Office for the [ More … ]
‘The crisis should end with a political solution by the participation of international actors,’ al-Thani says Qatar is “very thankful and grateful” for Turkey’s support during its current diplomatic crisis with neighboring Gulf states that [ More … ]
BY: YAHYA BOSTAN* Turkish military presence in Qatar is highly important for the stability and security of not only Qatar but the entire Gulf region. In recent weeks, Turkey’s military base in Qatar became a hot-button [ More … ]
Turkish president says demands by Saudi-led blockade ‘breach of Qatar’s sovereignty rights’ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday demands by Saudi Arabia and three other nations are “an attack to Qatar’s sovereignty right”. Erdogan [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* It is indisputable that the sanctions those three Gulf countries and Egypt wish to implement on Qatar signal a dangerous course in which the mind, common sense and moderation are rapidly abandoned. [ More … ]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar are locked in a war of words as the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its Sunni Arab neighbors enters its third week. “Emiratis, not Qataris, were among the [ More … ]
Turkish Foreign minister says, after holding talks in Qatar and Kuwait, ‘problem can’t be solved with embargoes and sanctions’. As the rift between Qatar and the Saudi-led bloc enters its second week, Turkey’s Foreign Minister [ More … ]
The Saudi-funded Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath TV has considered Morocco an ‘occupation state’ for the Sahara, which indicated a silent diplomatic crisis between Rabat and Riyadh against the backdrop of the Gulf-Qatar crisis. This coincided with a similar [ More … ]
After Israel decided to drastically cut electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip at the request at the Palestinian Authority (PA), UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory Robert Piper characterized the ever-worsening crisis in [ More … ]
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