Emir of Qatar Receives Saudi Foreign Minister

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani meets with Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah. (SPA)
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani meets with Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah. (SPA)
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Emir of Qatar Receives Saudi Foreign Minister

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani meets with Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah. (SPA)
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani meets with Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah. (SPA)

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met on Tuesday with Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, who is on an official visit to Qatar.

The meeting, held at the Amiri Diwan, touched on bilateral relations and ways of promoting and enhancing them, as well as on regional and international issues of common concern, reported the Saudi Press Agency.

Prince Faisal conveyed the greetings of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, to Sheikh Tamim.

Saudi Ambassador to Qatar Prince Mansour bin Khalid bin Farhan and Director General of the foreign minister’s office Abdulrahman Al-Daoud attended the meeting.

Prince Faisal later met with his Qatari counterpart and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.

The meeting at the Amiri Diwan tackled bilateral relations and ways of promoting and bolstering them. They also discussed regional and international issues of common interest.



Saudi Etidal and Telegram Remove 129 Million Extremist Content

The partnership between Etidal and the Telegram platform is based on enhancing joint cooperation and expanding coordination. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The partnership between Etidal and the Telegram platform is based on enhancing joint cooperation and expanding coordination. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Saudi Etidal and Telegram Remove 129 Million Extremist Content

The partnership between Etidal and the Telegram platform is based on enhancing joint cooperation and expanding coordination. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The partnership between Etidal and the Telegram platform is based on enhancing joint cooperation and expanding coordination. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The joint efforts between the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology (Etidal) and the Telegram platform in the field of combatting extremist content have achieved new results. The two teams were able to remove 129,634,467 million extremist content and close 14,516 extremist channels on the platform since February 2022 until the end of the third quarter of 2024.
During the third quarter of 2024, the two teams monitored the propaganda activity of three terrorist organizations: ISIS, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Al-Qaeda. They removed 35,634,916 million extremist content and closed 323 extremist channels.
ISIS topped the list of removed posts with 34,602,606 extremist content and the closure of 189 extremist channels, followed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham with the removal of 768,821 extremist content and the closure of 87 extremist channels, while Al-Qaeda came at the bottom of the list with 263,489 extremist content and the closure of 47 extremist channels.
The two teams noted an increase in the propaganda activity of ISIS, with a peak on September 13, 2024, when the terrorist organization broadcasted 1,283,141 million extremist content.
The partnership between Etidal and the Telegram platform is based on enhancing joint cooperation and expanding coordination between them regarding the prevention and combating of terrorism and violent extremism (PCVE), by monitoring and removing terrorist propaganda content published in Arabic via the platform.