Qatar hosts the largest USA military base in the Middle East and Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally, announced Wednesday that it will fast-track troop deployments to a Turkish base in Qatar.
Despite this, Qatar's detractors said they are hopeful that the country won't be able to hold out much longer without their help.
In his tweet, Trump voiced support for the regional blockade of Qatar and cited Qatar's funding of terrorist groups.
Representatives of clubs from Saudi Arabia have also been told by their domestic authorities not to talk to Qatar-based broadcaster beIn Sports, one of the AFC's official outlets, at Tuesday's draw for the Asian Champions League.
President Donald Trump stressed the need for Gulf unity in talks with Saudi Arabia's King Salman Tuesday, amid a crisis that has divided several key U.S. allies in the region.
"Many of Qatar Airways' flights to southern Europe and Africa pass through Saudi Arabia", the site said.
Al Thani told the Daily Beast that Qatari leader Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani "had a good meeting" with Trump during the latter's first trip overseas as President.
Saudi Arabia said it was cutting ties due to Qatar's "embrace of various terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilizing the region", including the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and militants supported by Iran in the kingdom's restive Eastern Province.
"The Ministry said the investigation team confirmed that the piracy process had used high techniques and innovative methods by exploiting an electronic gap on the website of the Qatar News Agency", the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Siding against ally Qatar, Trump injects US into Arab crisis
Jubeir added that Qatar was undermining the Palestinian Authority and Egypt in its support of Hamas and the Muslim brotherhood . As far as India is concerned, New Delhi has done well to state this is an internal matter for the Gulf countries to handle.
Residents of the United Arab Emirates who express support or sympathy for Qatar on social media could face a jail term of up to 15 years, the public prosecutor has said.
The measures taken against Qatar have seen dozens of flights cancelled and huge problems for Qatar Airways, which has been banned from the airspace of Saudi Arabia and other countries. "Many travelers and corporate accounts could blacklist Qatar Airways", said Leeham Co analyst Bjorn Fehrm.
UAE carriers Emirates, Etihad, flydubai and Air Arabia, as well as Saudi Airlines had all announced the suspension of flights to and from Qatar as of Tuesday morning.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also dismissed CNN's report on Tuesday, saying it "further undermined its reputation as an independent and objective media outlet".
Trump made the comments on Twitter after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, and several other countries cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday over allegations that Doha is sponsoring terrorism and destabilizing the region.
"Qataris are questioning whether this is going to end up in seeing a change in leadership itself in Qatar", Al Qassemi told the AP in his office in Sharjah, near Dubai.
Kuwait, also a GCC member, did not join its neighbours in severing ties with Qatar.
"This includes rebooking affected passengers on other airlines such as our oneworld partner, Malaysia Airlines", the airline said in a statement to Malay Mail yesterday.
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