News flash: We’re still not pals with Qatar. Amid our ongoing (and still rather mysterious) falling out with Saudi Arabia, it’s easy to forget that we’re still on the outs with Qatar. Into the breach rides Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, who Reuters says, “hit out at Egypt, normally a close Gulf Arab ally, for appearing to side with Assad…
‘For us unfortunately Egypt is supporting the [Assad] regime … We hope that they come back and be with us,’ he said. Support for Assad was the same as supporting terrorism, he said, ‘because he is a terrorist and he is on equal footing with Daesh.’” Al-Thani also promised that the statelet would continue to arm rebels in Syria even if the coming Trump administration were to pull back.