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October 20, 2019 | The Guardian

Journalist resigns in protest as Al Jazeera pulls oligarch investigation

November 16, 2017 | Jerusalem Post

Time for Trump to hold Qatar accountable for funding terrorism

November 7, 2017 | Haaretz

Fact Check: Is Qatar Supporting Terrorism? A Look at Its Ties to Iran, ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood

August 24, 2017 | The New York Times

Qatar Restores Full Relations With Iran, Deepening Gulf Feud

July 27, 2017 | Bloomberg

Ambassador Al Otaiba Discusses the Crisis in Qatar on the Charlie Rose Show

July 17, 2017 | The Hill

American companies should be wary of doing business with Qatar

July 12, 2017 | The Guardian

Anti-Qatar alliance renews attack on al-Jazeera Arabic

July 12, 2017 | Agence France-Presse

UAE slams Al-Jazeera for anti-Semitism, inciting hate

July 12, 2017 | UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs Releases Video Highlighting Incidents of Al Jazeera Supporting Extremism

July 6, 2017 | New York Daily News

Richard Clarke Op-Ed: We always knew Qatar was trouble, as the 1990s escape of terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad showed

July 6, 2017 | Haaretz

The Qatar-Iran Gas Field Behind the Diplomatic War in the Middle East

July 3, 2017 | Politico

Nonprofit urges multinational companies to shun Qatar

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Al Jazeera is at the centre of a row over its decision to pull an investigation into a black propaganda campaign waged against a London-based businessman whose Russian father-in-law, a mining magnate, has apparently fallen foul of rivals linked to the Kremlin.

The journalist who carried out the investigation, Will Jordan, who has been with the broadcaster for a decade, has resigned in protest at the decision which he claims amounts to censorship.

Read more at The Guardian

Meanwhile, Qatar is growing closer to Iran, beyond the positive media coverage it gives that nation through the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera network, and has been establishing energy, trade and security ties with a country whose officials frequently espouse the destruction of Israel.

Read more at the Jerusalem Post

The political crisis engulfing Qatar stems from accusations by its Arab neighbors that it supports terrorism. Qatar denies the allegations, but its ties with Iran and embrace of various Islamist groups have brought intense scrutiny, made it a regional outlier and created enough smoke to suggest a fire.

Read more at Haaretz

Qatar restored full diplomatic relations with Iran on Thursday, the latest volley in an 11-week-old geopolitical feud that has set the tiny yet fabulously wealthy Persian Gulf nation against its neighbors and rattled a previously placid part of the Middle East.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced that it was sending its ambassador back to Tehran after a 20-month hiatus that started in January 2016, when Qatar broke off relations after attacks on two Saudi diplomatic facilities in Iran.

Read more at The New York Times

The heightened awareness of Qatar’s support for dangerous policies should alarm American companies considering doing business with entities linked to the Qatari government.

Read more at The Hill

In April 2017, Qatar lifted a self-imposed ban on developing the world’s biggest natural gas field, which it is shares ownership with Iran, in an attempt to stave off an expected rise in competition.

Read more at Haaretz