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Qatar Rebuts Bahrain Destabilization Claim

Qatar has rejected accusations of attempting to undermine security in the neighboring Arab Gulf state of Bahrain. On Friday, Bahrain’s official news agency BNA broadcast the recording of a 2011 phone call alleged to have taken place between Hamad bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, an adviser to Qatar’s emir, and Hassan ...

June 17, 2017

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Says It Does Not Need Turkish Military Base

Saudi Arabia said Saturday a Turkish military base similar to that built in neighboring Qatar would not be welcome in the kingdom, insisting it is “not needed”. The statement came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly said he had offered to build a military base in the Muslim kingdom ...

June 17, 2017

Saudi Arabia

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi King Salman

Al Saud, ‘Israel’ Reportedly Negotiating Economic Ties: The Times

Saudi Arabia and ‘Israel’ are negotiating the establishment of economic ties, The Times reported on Saturday. The British daily quoted Arab and American sources as saying that the first steps toward ties between the two sides would start small, including allowing Israeli businesses to operate in the Gulf and letting ...

June 17, 2017

Qatar

Al-Jazeera Twitter Account ‘Suspended’

Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said the Twitter account for its main Arabic-language channel had been suspended on Saturday, in the latest “conspiracy” to hit the station. Yasser Abuhilalah, managing director of Al-Jazeera Arabic, confirmed the suspension on social media. The suspension comes at a time of diplomatic crisis in the Gulf ...

June 17, 2017

Saudi Arabia

Saudi King Strips Crown Prince of Prosecution Oversight

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a royal decree that restructures the country’s system for prosecutions, essentially stripping the crown prince of longstanding powers overseeing criminal investigations. The king’s decree issued Saturday renames the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution as the office of Public Prosecution and orders that a newly ...

June 17, 2017

Iraq

Iraqi Forces Seize Key Crossing near Syria from ISIL

Iraqi forces have seized from ISIL terrorists one of the official border crossings between the country and Syria, thus choking a key supply line feeding the Takfiri terrorist group. Al-Waleed, which together with two other passageways links Iraq and Syria, came under government control on Saturday, Reuters reported. The advance ...

June 17, 2017

Iran

Nothing Can Prevent Iran from Pursuing Defense Right: Qassemi

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has defended the country’s “completely legitimate” missile defense program, emphasizing that nothing can prevent the Islamic Republic from exercising its right to defense. “Missile defense programs of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely legitimate and are not even at odds with [the United Nations ...

June 17, 2017

Syria

Russian Military Delivers Humanitarian Aid to Settlement in Syrian Latakia

Russian Defense Ministry’s center for Syrian reconciliation servicemen provided humanitarian, medical and psychological aid to the residents of the Wadi Qandil settlement in the Syrian Latakia. “In the village of Wadi Qandil more than 100 families have lost their breadwinners during the battles with terrorists, today we brought them over ...

June 17, 2017

Palestine

Zionist Forces Shoot Dead Three Palestinians in al-Quds

Three Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli occupation troops in the occupied al-Quds over an alleged stabbing attack. The three Palestinians were killed on Friday near the Damascus Gate, which is one of the main entrances to the Old City of the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds. Eyewitnesses said the ...

June 17, 2017

Saudi Arabia

Saudi FM Softens Tone on Qatar amid Persian Gulf Tensions

The Riyadh regime seems to have softened its stance towards Doha amid severe diplomatic tensions between the two sides, with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir calling Qatar an “ally” in his latest remarks. Jubeir told journalists in London on Friday that his country had no intention of harming the Qatari ...

June 17, 2017