The United States and Qatar signed an agreement on Tuesday aimed at combating the financing of terrorism, as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Doha to try to end a month-long rift between Western-allied Arab states.

Accompanied by Kuwaiti mediators, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flew to Doha on Tuesday (July 11, 2017) for talks with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, over the crisis.

Kuwait's ruler on Tuesday expressed "bitterness" over what he described as an unprecedented rift in the Gulf, but said he intended to push ahead with mediation efforts, state news agency KUNA reported.

If Qatar submits to the 13 unprecedented demands that Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have made, it will cease to exist as a nation state, highlights Robert Fisk.

Amnesty International demanded the release of a UAE national after activists on social media called on the state to free Ghanem Abdullah Mattar, who has been arrested for sympathizing with Qatar.

The four countries boycotting Qatar said that the secret documents revealed by US-based CNN support their stance concerning Qatar.

Qatar made a series of secret agreements with its Gulf neighbors in 2013 and 2014 barring support for opposition and hostile groups in those nations, as well as in Egypt and Yemen.

Although Bahrain issued the first statement announcing the severing of ties with Qatar, the island kingdom remained excluded from the deliberations regarding the Qatar crisis.

More than a month since the start of the diplomatic crisis gripping the Gulf, hopes of a swift resolution seem as remote as a summer downpour in the desert.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called on Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies to end their blockade and siege of Qatar, playing down the possibility of a military escalation between the two sides.

Qatari official wished Bahrain would not arrest members of the Muslim Brotherhood or shut down their newspaper

Former MP and leader in Al-Islah Society, preaching branch representing Muslim Brotherhood in Bahrain, denied to have been prevented from delivering a speech in Sabeeka Al-Ansari Mosque in Isa Town, South of Manama.

At dusk, young Qataris gather outside the house of a ruling family member in Doha to sign a portrait of Qatar's emir mounted on a giant billboard.

Qatar on Friday dismissed as "baseless" accusations that it was financing terrorism, in its first public response to a statement from four Arab states which are leading a boycott against the tiny emirate.

Deputy Secretary-General of Al-Menbar Islamic Society (Muslim Brotherhood) Nasser Al-Fadala broke his silence and criticized the stance of some Gulf governments towards the Qatari row.

Qatar expressed its regret over the statements made by the four “siege countries” and said it contains “false accusations”. Qatar said in a statement on Friday (July 7, 2017) that “statement of siege countries has false accusations and defamation against the stable foundations of relations between nations”.

A Bahraini newspaper owned by the Muslim Brotherhood rejected the attack on the group, amid intensifying disputes with Qatar after accusing it of supporting the Islamic affiliation.

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said that the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Bahrain reveal double standards.

The four Arab states leading the boycott against Qatar said late on Thursday that Doha's refusal of their demands to resolve a Gulf diplomatic crisis is proof of its links to terror groups and that they would enact new measures against it.

The United States is increasingly concerned that a rift between Qatar and other Arab states is at an impasse and could drag on for a long time or intensify, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.