Qatar

Tillerson in Near East

11. July 2017 - 19:21

Behind the Scenes at the Saudi-Qatari Pissing Contest

04.07.2017

Saudi Arabia, with the bellicose support of President Trump, has launched a diplomatic and partial economic offensive against the ridiculously small state of Qatar and is dragging its allies, the United Arab Emirates in particular, into a potentia

The Unraveling of the Riyadh Declaration: The Qatar Dossier & the End of GCC

09.06.2017

Alexander Azadgan

As the possible Qatari separation from the rest of hopefully soon to be defunct GCC and in particular the Wahabbi oil-rich dictatorship of Saudi Arabia, do I need to remind anyone that 80% of Qatar’s 2.3 million population are foreign workers and

Erdogan initiates faster troop deployment in Qatar

7. June 2017 - 22:41

The Saudi-Qatar tensions: real reasons

Source: Wikimedia

05.06.2017

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar and Yemen announced a break in diplomatic relations with Qatar. Qatar was accused of supporting terrorism, in particular the ISIS, as well as the international Islamic movement "Muslim Brotherhood". The current crisis is not the first in the relationship between Saudi Arabia and its allies on the one hand, and Qatar on the other. However, given the redistribution of forces in the Middle East and the clearly marked US stake on for Saudi Arabia and Israel, for Qatar, it can have serious consequences.

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