King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa received, at Al-Safriya Place, US Administration Special Envoy Retired General Anthony Zini and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arabian Peninsula Affairs- Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs- Timothy A. Lenderking, who arrived in Bahrain to find out a solution for the crisis with Qatar.

Turkish army announced on Tuesday that Ankara and Doha “successfully” concluded joint military trainings, amid an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between the small emirate and its Gulf neighbors.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received on Tuesday (August 8, 2017) a written letter from Kuwait’s Emir Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah about “the latest regional and international developments and issues of common interest”.

Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that the Bahraini authorities are making use of their foreign rifts with Qatar to pervert justice and bring malicious charges against former Al-Wefaq leader Sheikh Hassan Isa, through leaking forged documents that haven’t been raised earlier.

Two U.S. envoys arrive in the Gulf region this week to meet with officials there to help resolve a diplomatic crisis between Qatar and four other Arab countries that has lasted for more than two months, a State Department official said on Monday.

A Qatari newspaper reported that Bahrain's position towards Qatar was motivated by Saudi domination of the Bahraini decision, pointing out that Saudi Arabia puts its hand on two Bahraini islands and a large oil field.

Qatar plans to allow some expatriates to obtain permanent residency, state news agency QNA reported, in the first move of its kind among Gulf Arab states that rely heavily on foreign labor.

The Middle East Monitor reported that the managing director of Al Jazeera English, said: “It’s as absurd as it would be for Germany to demand Britain to close the BBC.”

Qatar Airways is expected to have access to three contingency routes over international waters in early August, after a UN-led meeting on Monday discussed air corridors for Doha following a rift with its neighbors, a source familiar with the matter said.

Qatar filed a wide-ranging legal complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday to challenge a trade boycott by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates, the director of Qatar's WTO office Ali Alwaleed al-Thani told Reuters.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain, which have tried to isolate Qatar, said on Sunday they would allow Qatari planes to use air corridors in emergencies, but Doha denied it, saying they were spreading "false information".

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister called what he said was Qatar's demand for an internationalization of the Muslim hajj pilgrimage a declaration of war against the kingdom, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Sunday, but Qatar said it never made such a call.

The four Arab countries that have cut ties with Qatar said on Sunday they were ready for talks to tackle the dispute if Doha showed willingness to deal with their demands.

Bahrain Watch said that Al-Jazeera Channel was targeted on Twitter by bot army. The organization published a report on its website saying that central to the Qatar Crisis has been the existence of Al Jazeera. Right from the beginning of the crisis, which was prompted by the alleged hacking of the Qatar News Agency by the UAE, Al Jazeera has been targeted by propaganda bots on Twitter.

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa met his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, on the sidelines of the Ministerial-level meeting of the Arab League Council. The two ministers reviewed the meeting to be hosted by the Kingdom of Bahrain next Sunday for the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Arab Republic of Egypt to discuss the developments of crisis with Qatar.

Bahraini government’s decision to shutter al-Wasat indefinitely yet again underscores regime’s on-going assault on freedom of expression and independent media.

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan left Qatar on Monday after two days in the Gulf trying to mediate in the worst row among Arab states for years but there was no sign he had made any progress.

Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt have announced the designation of nine entities and nine individuals on the lists of terrorist groups and said they are supported by Qatar.

A researcher in Human Rights Watch said that the Gulf crisis shone a spotlight on the legal discrimination against women that predates the crisis, indicating that 480 were separated due to the crisis.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan heads to the Gulf this weekend in an attempt to patch up the rift between Qatar and its neighbors, but the firm Qatari ally may find himself with little room to maneuver as a mediator.