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Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (AFP)

March 22nd, 2019 - 09:27 GMT

The Wheeling and Dealing of a Prince

Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, proposed to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to set up a covert program to assassinate Taliban leaders, a report says.

An awkward GIF has emerged from this excruciating meeting between US President Trump and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (AFP)

September 20th, 2017 - 10:41 GMT

Trump Changes Mind on Handshake With Qatar Emir in Awkward GIF

Human rights campaigners protest against Farnborough International arms fair, London, 11th July, 2016 (Flickr)

September 13th, 2017 - 12:14 GMT

‘Made in Britain, Dropped on Children’: Stop Fueling Yemen’s War, Demands New Ad

A woman walks on a street in Marigot, on September 11, 2017 on the French Caribbean island of Saint-Martin after it was hit by Hurricane Irma. (Martin Bureau/AFP)

September 12th, 2017 - 01:53 GMT

Top Al Jazeera Reporter Compares Hurricane Irma to 'Soldiers of Allah'

The Saudi government funded a ‘dry run’ for 9/11, a New York Post story has claimed (Flickr)

September 11th, 2017 - 10:03 GMT

Who is the Islamophobic Conspiracy-theorist Behind the Saudi 9/11 'Dry Run' Story?

The timing of the incident is interesting, coming as it did almost exactly as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke on the phone with the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, for the first time since tensions began (AFP)

September 10th, 2017 - 12:04 GMT

'ISIS Pledges Allegiance to Qatar': Fake News or Something More?

A fancy place for fancy reads. (PEDCAR)

August 28th, 2017 - 10:31 GMT

A Good Thing Happened to the Palestinian Presidential Palace

An image used by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain in a social media campaign (Wikimedia Commons)

August 15th, 2017 - 01:34 GMT

Outrage as Columnist Compares 'Ex-Muslims' to Nazis

The extremist group eventually set up a base in Qatar, despite Saudi and the UAE attempting to host them. (AFP)

August 13th, 2017 - 12:06 GMT

Hypocrisy? Saudi and UAE Tried to Host Taliban Before 'Terror-Funding' Qatar

An Iranian protestor holds a banner bearing a portrait of top Bahraini Shiite cleric Isa Qassim, who was sentenced on May 21 to a suspended one-year jail term, during a demonstration in the capital Tehran on May 26, 2017 (STR/AFP)

June 3rd, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

UN Rights Chief Urges Bahrain to Probe Protester Deaths

Wednesday's protests outside the White House (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

February 16th, 2017 - 08:56 GMT

Not our president(s): Jewish protesters demonstrate against Netanyahu and Trump

Egypt's tourism industry effectively asks tourists to help subsidise the oppression of Nubians, to give them a bit of tourists' money, and contribute to a sort of rentier state in southern Egypt, in which cash is doled out in return for stolen land and silence over the lack of basic rights. (AFP/File)

February 15th, 2017 - 10:27 GMT

Nubians seek recognition and right of return in Egypt and Sudan

Tunisians protest against Israel on Tuesday (Fethi Belaid/AFP)

December 22nd, 2016 - 07:27 GMT

Tunisians protest assassination of Hamas engineer