Qatar Isolation Two Years On

Expand In this Friday, June 2, 2017 file photo released by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, left, talks to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince and Deputy Commander in Chief of the Emirates Armed Forces in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. © 2019 Saudi Press Agency via AP, File Exactly two years since Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates cut off diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar and sparked a regional crisis, parties to the dispute seem nowhere near resolving their differences. While they argue, the crisis continues…

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