Qatar’s Minister of State for Defence Affairs Khalid Bin Mohammad Al Attiyah has said that the countries that have imposed a siege on the small Gulf state have betrayed Doha because...

UN and Qatari envoys yesterday met with the Coordinator for Israeli Government Activities in the Occupied Territories, Major General Kamil Abu Rokon, and discussed the situation in the Gaza...

Saudi Arabia is depriving Qatari nationals and residents of Qatar from performing the Hajj pilgrimage for the third year in a row. Since 2017, when Saudi Arabia the United...

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain have agreed to resume postal services to Qatar almost three years after they were stopped due to a political dispute, the United Nations said...

Jordan yesterday banned non-Jordanian travellers from entering the country from Iran and South Korea as a “temporary precautionary measure” after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Government spokesperson, Amjad Adaileh,...

The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Yossi Cohen, has visited Qatar on the order of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to reinforce the ceasefire with Hamas in...

Qatar has accused Saudi Arabia of allowing a protracted dispute to hinder Gulf Arab coordination over the coronavirus outbreak by denying the Qatari health minister timely access to a...

Qatar’s Foreign Minister has said that talks with Saudi Arabia stopped in January without any prior notice, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani made his...

The Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, yesterday denied claims that Doha has provided support for any of the terrorist groups in Syria explaining...

A senior Hamas delegation has met with Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Doha, the capital of Qatar. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance Movement...

The number of Jordanian expatriates working in Qatar has reached 60,000 persons, making them the largest working community in the Gulf state. The Qatari Ambassador in Jordan, Sheikh Saud...

Algeria yesterday issued an order to deport the country head of the Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo for “sacking 900 Algerian workers”. An-Nahar reported that the Algerian President Abdelmajid Taboun  ordered...

Turkey would never forcibly deport any refugee whose life could be in danger in his or her home country, Turkish interior minister said yesterday. Speaking to Qatar’s Al-Jazeera, Süleyman...

It looks as though the Gulf monarchies are seeking to bring their three-year long feud to an end. Signs of thawing acrimony have  been in the offing for some...

Hamas has announced that its leader’s foreign tour will continue throughout 2020 in order to complete a very busy political and speaking schedule. The fact that Ismail Haniyeh will...

Talks between Saudi Arabia and Qatar to resolve a dispute between the two Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states collapsed shortly after kicking off in October last year; Reuters...

A non-aggression agreement will be signed between Israel the Gulf countries in the near future, former Qatar prime minister said in tweets yesterday. Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim wrote: “Today,...

Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim threw, on Saturday, a copy of the US’ so-called “deal of the century” in the bin, stressing that it “was born dead” and “should...

Qatar is preparing to be the first Gulf country to operate submarines and an aircraft carrier, as it seeks to enhance its military capabilities. US magazine Forbes stated that...

The United Arab Emirates Barakah nuclear power plant is ready to operate, the UAE’s state-run Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported on Tuesday. Nawah Energy Company, the operator of the power plant, is...

Qatar is not willing to renegotiate prices under its long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracts with India, Qatari energy minister, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, announced yesterday. Reuters quoted Al-Kabbi at...

Qatar, yesterday, disbursed financial aid to 70,000 low-income families in the occupied Gaza Strip. Local media reported that thousands of Palestinians had gathered in front of the public post...

Wael Ghonim one of the founders of the Egyptian 2011 Revolution has attacked the Muslim Brotherhood and praised Saudi Arabia and UAE

Qatar has reiterated its call to settle its dispute with the blockade countries – namely Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Bahrain – “peacefully”, through constructive...

Nationalism and national identity are two key concepts in the shaping of the contemporary world since the 19th century. Nationalism aims to create group loyalty, through a single national...

A new Qatari law criminalising the publishing of “false or biased” statements could “significantly restrict freedom of expression”, rights group Amnesty International said on Monday, reports Reuters. The addition...

Qatar Airways, Emirates and several other Gulf airlines still fly in Iraqi and Iranian airspace and to cities in both countries, even as other international carriers have rerouted planes...

The Libyan Foreign Ministry called for the need to invite both Qatar and Tunisia to the Berlin Conference, to be held on Sunday. This came in a letter sent...

Increasing tensions between Iran and the US have led to fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East, with energy market participants increasingly concerned that the fallout could...

The Qatari National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) and Ministry of Education and Higher Education yesterday launched the guide on human rights on the sidelines of the Doha International Book...

The Israeli fencing team has been banned from travelling to Qatar to compete as a result of the security threat posed by Iran, media sources have said. National broadcaster...

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed on Sunday that the only solution to the region’s crises lies in de-escalation...