Second Qatar Crisis: Causes and Possible Solutions

... march lockstep with the Saudis’ policies, Doha never lost its aspiration to re-emerge as a leader of the Islamic world. The Qatari government continued to search for any niches where they could pursue policies and interests independent of Riyadh. On ... ... and Zabadani near Damascus to the regime represented by the Lebanese Hezbollah. Aleksandr Aksenenok, Omar Mahmood: Russia – GCC Relations After the Signing of the JCPOA This chain of events gave Riyadh yet another reason to be weary of Qatar potentially ...