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Qatari armed forces that had been stationed in Saudi Arabia as part of the Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen returned home on Wednesday, state television reported on its Twitter account.
The forces had been stationed in southern Saudi Arabia, the report said, reinforcing Saudi defences against Houthi attacks.
Saudi Arabia, which along with several other Arab countries has severed ties with Qatar accusing it of supporting terrorism and links to Iran, has said that Doha was being kicked out of the coalition set up in 2015.
The dispute between Qatar and its neighbours was triggered by a purported hack of Qatar's state-run news agency that attributed what Doha said was a “false statement” to the country’s emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani .
The statement, which was later removed, focused on sensitive regional political issues with other nations in the region, including Iran and Israel, and also Doha's relationship with new US President Donald Trump.
Qatar has said the measures taken against it were "unjustified and based on false claims and assumptions" and that it was facing a "campaign of lies that have reached the point of complete fabrication" aimed at putting the state "under guardianship."
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
