Qatar push: Saudi and Egypt among nations to cut Doha joins

A number of Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilizing the region.

Various Arab nations including Saudi Arabia and Egypt have cut conciliatory ties with Qatar, blaming it for destabilizing the locale.

They say Qatar backs aggressor bunches including purported Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda, which Qatar denies.

The Saudi state news office SPA said Riyadh had shut its fringes, disjoining area, ocean and air contact with the minor promontory of oil-rich Qatar.

Qatar called the choice "unjustified" and with "no premise truth be told".

The phenomenal move is viewed as a noteworthy part between intense Gulf nations, who are likewise close US partners.

It comes in the midst of increased pressures between Gulf nations and their close neighbor, Iran. The Saudi articulation blamed Qatar for working together with "Iranian-upheld psychological oppressor gatherings" in its fretful eastern locale of Qatif and in Bahrain.