Qatar's neighbors issue list of punitive demands

Doha has 10 days to comply or risk seeing simmering dispute escalate

DUBAI - Four Arab states boycotting Qatar over alleged support for terrorism have sent Doha a list of 13 demands, including closing Al-Jazeera television and reducing ties to Iran, an official of one of the four countries said.

The demands aimed at ending the worst Gulf Arab crisis in years appear designed to quash a two decade-old foreign policy in which Qatar has punched well above its weight, striding the stage as a peace broker, often in conflicts in Muslim lands.