Qatar

Three workers died and several were injured at a building site in Qatar, which has come under pressure to improve conditions for labourers working on venues for the 2022...

Around 80 ex-employees of Al-Arab TV are planning to prosecute the billionaire Saudi owner, Prince Al-Walid Bin Talal, who dismissed them without, it is alleged, paying what was due...

More than 1,000 insurgents and their families left an opposition-held district of Damascus on Monday, completing an agreement between the Syrian government and rebels, Syrian state media outlets and...

Western diplomats shunned the opening ceremony of a conference in Qatar on Sunday attended by Sudan's president, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC)....

Mexico's growing beef industry is targeting Muslim consumers in the Middle East for its prime cuts as it seeks to reduce dependence on buyers in the United States. The...

The US State Department approved a $2 billion sale of missiles to the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said yesterday. The sale would include 60 Patriot PAC-3 missiles made...

Jordan has become the latest signatory to an agreement to establish a joint Arab electricity market. A memorandum of understanding was first drawn up and signed by the energy...

Saudi Arabia has excluded Iran from the Arab-Islamic summit with US President Donald Trump scheduled to take place in Riyadh this month, sources told Quds Press. The sources said...

Qatar's foreign minister today welcomed a Russian-brokered agreement for "de-escalation" zones in Syria but said the plan was no substitute for a political transition that would see President Bashar...

Qatar Airways said on Sunday it has signed a sponsorship deal with FIFA to be the official partner and airline of the next two World Cups, in Russia and...

Qatari army will take part in "Saqr Al Jazeera 1 drill, which is currently being held in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Qatar News Agency, has reported. According to...

The general manager of the Qatari Holding Company (QT), revealed on Friday that investors from the Arab and Gulf countries favour Turkey as the best place for their investments,...

Hamas member Sami Khater expressed his surprise yesterday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had warned that he would take "unprecedented punishing measures" against Gaza if Hamas did not accept...

Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas – has finally revealed its new charter. The document was launched by the head of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, at a...

Qatari international media giant Al Jazeera has threatened that it will be imminently suing a Russian propaganda outlet for defamation after it was accused of staging a chemical weapons...

Qatar has denied trying to pay ransom money through unofficial channels this month to secure the release of 26 Qataris abducted in Iraq a year and a half ago...

The Huffington Post Arabic language edition website has been blocked by the UAE authorities as the government tightens its control over the dissemination of information. This ban in the...

Hamas plans to unveil a landmark "political document" next week in Qatar, the Gaza-based resistance movement announced Wednesday. According to a Hamas statement, the group's political chief, Khaled Meshaal,...

The number of tourists visiting Egypt from the Gulf States has increased by 18 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to the Egyptian consulate in...

Egypt's Administrative Court rejected on Sunday a lawsuit filed by the legal representative of Qatar's Al-Jazeera Mubasher Egypt, Mohammed Abdul Sattar, to regain the channel's license to legally operate...

The evacuation of Syrian civilians and fighters from four besieged towns was completed on Friday after a 48-hour halt, as part of a mediated swap deal between the warring...

  26 Qataris, including members of the Gulf state's ruling royal family and two Saudis, were freed on Friday after being kidnapped and held for a ransom of millions...

US President Donald Trump may add a visit to Saudi Arabia to a trip to Europe in May in what will be his first overseas journey since becoming president,...

Hundreds of Turkish companies are seeking to strengthen their presence in Qatar through the upcoming "Expo Turkey by Qatar" exhibition which will be held this week in the Qatari...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has said that Egypt has provided the Security Council with information that will enable them to name countries that fund and support terrorism, namely...

Prisoner swaps between opposition groups and the regime began the process of evacuations from four Syrian villages on Wednesday, Arab48 reported. Twelve opposition fighters and 19 Syrian regime soldiers...

The GCC countries have been strongly nominated to become one of Britain's main investment destinations after it leaves the European Union. Economists told the Anadolu agency that the British...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' use of threats and intimidation are not useful, member of Hamas political bureau, Mousa Abu Marzouk, said. "Abbas' threats to take unprecedented steps to...

Preparations began on Tuesday to evacuate the Shi'ite populations of two Syrian towns in exchange for moving Sunni rebels and civilians out of two others in a deal between...

Palestinians attend the opening ceremony of a mosque in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani began a two-day official visit to Ethiopia today, his first to the African country since he gained power in 2013. According to an Ethiopian news...

Energy ministers of 14 Arab countries signed on Thursday a Memorandum of Understanding to establish an Arab Common Market for Electricity, Anadolu Agency reported. The memo was signed on...