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With President Donald Trump set to blow off a deadline to assess Prince Mohammed’s role in Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, Congress is gearing up to pass several anti-#Riyadh measures almon.co/362t
Top Russian security officials tour Egypt, Gulf to discuss Syria, Libya al-monitor.com/pulse/origina…
CNN released a bombshell report Monday evening accusing #Saudi and the #UAE of funneling American-made weapons to Al-Qaeda and other militant groups in #Yemen almon.co/361x
The #UAE and #Egypt — and at a later stage possibly #Saudi — are willing to further normalize relations with #Syria and pave the way for its return to the #ArabLeague almon.co/361k
Intel: How Saudi support for Yemen extremists could dry up US arms sales al-monitor.com/pulse/origina…
The United States creates dilemmas for GCC in #Syria; #Qatar steps up with $500 million #Lebanon investment @AlMonitor almon.co/360g
An unhealthy rivalry between #Qatar and the #UAE was on display during the AFC Asian Cup semi-finals, with Emirati fans booing the Qatari national anthem and pelting water bottles at the players almon.co/35z2
There has been a vacuum created by a decline of #Saudi influence in #Lebanon that #Qatar now seeks to fill almon.co/35vr
#Qatar financial aid is very important for #Hamas, but good relations with neighboring #Egypt are essential to its survival almon.co/35zd
As #Moscow urges #Damascus and #Ankara to cooperate and to revive the Adana agreement, Russian-Iranian relations in #Syria face their next challenge @TheSyriaPulse almon.co/35yv
#Turkey is taking a back seat in the investigation of Khashoggi's murder, letting the #UN delegation — headed by the special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnes Callamard — take the lead almon.co/35yw
Day-to-day responsibility for managing the #Yemen conflict is being passed on to John Rood, the #Pentagon’s No. 3 official almon.co/35xp
#Ankara has to carefully handle its relations with the Arab world now that it hosts a sizable Arab diaspora that may not be willing or able to assimilate smoothly almon.co/35qz
Gulf states are seeking to become major economic players in post-war #Syria, but US sanctions are causing some states to proceed with caution almon.co/35wv
US-Gulf tensions mount over restrictions on Syria reconstruction al-monitor.com/pulse/origina…
In the wake of the military escalation between #Israel and the #GazaStrip, #Israel has frozen the third transfer of the Qatari grant to #Gaza, thus breaching understandings reached with #Hamas almon.co/35q0
There has been a vacuum created by a decline of #Saudi influence in #Lebanon that #Qatar now seeks to fill almon.co/35vr