19 June 2017: The state-run Qatar News Agency (QNA) assigned the London-based law firm Carter-Ruck to file an official complaint with Ofcom, UK’s broadcasting and communications regulator, against the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news channel and Sky News Arabia for ‘violating impartiality code and accuracy in news’ sourcing’
16 June 2017: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain affirm that their recent moves to diplomatically isolate Qatar are within their rights to protect their ‘national security’
12 June 2017: Somali President, Mohammed Abdullah Farmajo, refuses $80 million offered to him by Saudi Arabia to partake in the boycott of Qatar
9 June 2017: Saudi Arabia threatens hotels and tourism centres with $27,000 fines if they air Al Jazeera
9 June 2017: The Saudi-backed Muslim World League announces the suspension of Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi’s membership in its Islamic Fiqh Academy
9 June 2017: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt release a list of people and organisations with alleged links to Qatar which they designate as ‘terrorists’, including Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef Al-Qaradawi
7 June 2017: The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas both reject claims by Saudi Arabia that they are ‘terrorist organisations’
7 June 2017: Qatar begins using Somali airspace after Saudi Arabia and other neighbouring countries ban its national carrier, Qatar Airways
7 June 2017: The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC received nearly $270,000 as part of the Saudi government’s payments to lobby groups which work to further Riyadh’s interests in the United States
6 June 2017: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, says Qatar must end its support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to restore ties with other Arab states
5 June 2017: For the first time in history, a Saudi journalist is interviewed on Israeli TV and says: ‘There is no place for Hamas in the Middle East’
5 June 2017: Saudi Arabia shuts Qatar-based Al Jazeera channel’s office in the Kingdom
5 June 2017: The Yemeni government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi severs ties with Qatar. The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting to restore his power over the country since 2015.
5 June 2017: Qatar says it is the victim of “incitement… based on lies”
5 June 2017: Saudi expels Qatar from its coalition leading the war on Yemen
5 June 2017: Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt announce they will sever ties with Qatar. Qatari diplomats are given 48 hours to return to their country while Qatari nationals and visitors are told to pack up and leave within two weeks
UAE Ambassador to the US, Yousef Al-Otaiba [File photo]
3 June 2017: UAE represetative to the US Yousef Al-Otaiba's email account is hacked uncovering joins between Al-Otaiba and an expert Israel think-tank in Washington. The authority is observed to ask the US to move its army installation out of Qatar which he says supports 'psychological warfare'
25 May 2017: Ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) consent to stretch out the current creation slices to nine months, from the a half year which had already been affirmed
24 May 2017: Saudi, Egypt and UAE square locales having a place with Qatar including Al Jazeera
24 May 2017: Qatari News Agency hacked and comments ascribed to Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani distributed which censure US remote approach
22 May 2017: US President Donald Trump takes the main authority non-stop departure from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv, Israel
20 May 2017: The US and Saudi Arabia come to a $110 billion or more arms bargain, the White House declares
5 December 2016: Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud touches base in Doha trying to reinforce ties between the two nations
1 December 2016: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) consented to control generation out of the blue since 2008 the main part of the cut will be carried by Saudi Arabia, while Iran has been permitted to expand its yield to levels before it was hit by Western authorizations
2 January 2016: Saudi Arabia declares the execution of 47 individuals, including unmistakable Shia minister Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr, over psychological oppression charges
March 2015: Qatar joins military mediation propelled by Saudi Arabia in Yemen to restore President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and push back military progressions from the Iranian-upheld Houthi gathering
September 2015: Qatar conveys 1,000 ground troops to battle in Yemen, including 200 defensively covered vehicles, and 30 Apache helicopters to Maarib area
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