Response will be the focus of a meeting on Wednesday between ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and UAE. Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has previously dismissed the list of demands Qatar's foreign minister has arrived in Kuwait to hand...
Al Jazeera demands press freedom.   Any call for closing down or obstructing access to our channels is an attempt to silence freedom of expression. To those who demand that Al Jazeera be shut down and that people's right to the...
New 2,000-pound banknotes featuring Bashar al-Assad's face go into circulation in Damascus and a number of provinces. The currency previously only carried images of historic icons or pictures of Assad's late father President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian...
A helicopter heading to evacuate residents near an erupting volcano crashed near Java's Dieng Plateau in Indonesia. A rescue helicopter crashed while heading to help evacuate residents near an erupting volcano on Java, the main island of Indonesia, killing all eight...
Foreign ministers of nations boycotting Qatar will meet in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss their next steps. Kuwait's emir has been mediating between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours to end the blockade Saudi Arabia and three allies boycotting Qatar have agreed to a...
State TV says security forces minimised death toll by preventing attackers from targeting busy areas in the capital. State TV says casualties minimised as attacks thwarted in biggest attack on capital since March Three car bombings have struck Damascus, according...
Lalive will pursue the cases of some 2,450 citizens and foreign residents hit by the anti-Qatar measures. Barbara Bibbo Qatari officials meet with lawyers from the international law firm Lalive in Geneva Geneva, Switzerland - The National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) in...
Saudi foreign minister reiterates that list of 13-point demands to Qatar 'to stop funding terrorism' is non-negotiable. Jubeir made a similar statement last week in Washington DC Saudi Arabia has reiterated that its demands to Qatar to end the stand-off...
offering instead "a proper condition for a dialogue" to resolve the Gulf crisis. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, speaking at the news conference in the Italian capital Rome on Saturday, said the list "was meant to be rejected", pointing...
About 440,000 people displaced within the country returned to their homes since January, UN refugee agency says. An estimated 260,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighbouring countries since 2015, according to the UN Nearly half a million displaced Syrians...

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