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Efforts by the QatarI authorities to reassure the world that all is well with its 2022 World Cup undertaking received a further setback on Wednesday when Amnesty International released...

According to Anadolu news agency, the Gulf countries have agreed to hold the upcoming Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Doha following a surprise summit that was held in...

Qatari Professor of Political Studies Mohamed al-Misfer revealed on Friday that the consultation meeting for the Gulf Cooperation Council scheduled for Sunday is to prepare for the upcoming conference...

The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani spoke by telephone today with Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait, in order to prepare for the...

Qatar's Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday a $40 million grant to support the education sector in the Gaza Strip to be administered through the "Fakhura" programme of the Qatari...

Qatar and Sudan signed a memorandum related to military cooperation between the two countries earlier today. The agreement was signed by Qatar's Minister of Defence General Hamad bin Ali...

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has purchased a stake in a Hong Kong department store chain, beginning a potential $15bn spending spree targeting China, Japan and South Korea, reported...

British newspaper The Telegraph, and its sister paper The Sunday Telegraph, have recently published a series of reports linking Qatar with support for terrorism around the world, including on...

US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki confirmed during Wednesday's daily press briefing that the US has begun delivering Apache helicopters to Egypt, noting that the US had announced its...

The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani stressed that his country "will spare no effort in continuing to support the struggle and perseverance of the Palestinian people...

The German government has approved arms exports to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates sparking fierce criticism from the opposition. Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative-left coalition government informed Federal...

The German government has approved arms exports to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates sparking fierce criticism from the opposition. Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative-left coalition government informed Federal...

The interior ministers of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf States called on the Shia Al-Houthi group in Yemen to return all headquarters and official...

Qatar's politics are a "nuisance" to parties that would like to "maintain the status quo", the country's Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah said yesterday. He added that due...

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin-Hamad Al-Thani described on Thursday the deposition of the elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi a "coup." Speaking with the CNN's Christiane Amanpour, he stressed that...

The Moroccan Foreign Exchange Office, the institution in charge of overseeing trade and economic exchanges with foreign countries, said on Thursday that trade between Morocco and the Gulf Cooperation...

I was recently visited by two American diplomats in Education City in Qatar who are interested in the political transformations in the Arab region. We had a long talk...

The US and its Arab partners air raids against oil fields controlled by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Syria yesterday evening, the Pentagon announced. The source confirmed that Saudi...

Two British human rights workers have finally made it back to the UK following their unexpected stay with the Qatari security services. They were arrested while investigating abuses against...

Egyptian authorities have barred Palestinians seeking to travel to Turkey, Qatar and four other countries from leaving the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing, a Palestinian official said Saturday....

The Qarati and Turkish presidents have agreed to set up a "strategic cooperation council" aimed at bolstering bilateral relations and which will be jointly headed by the two presidents,...

Qatar dismissed allegations by the Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thanni who accused the Gulf country of arming Libyan Dawn troops. In a statement to the Qatari News Agency, the...

Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam said his visit to Doha is aimed at seeking Qatari help with the release of Lebanese soldiers abducted by IS and Al-Nusra Front militants....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the Qatari capital Doha late on Saturday night for an official two-day official visit to the Gulf state. According to the Qatari...

The Egyptian prosecutor general Hisham Barakat has asked the international police agency INTERPOL to arrest "fugitive" leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including those who have been asked...

An Egyptian diplomatic source has cited Saudi and American pressures for a recent Qatari move to expel seven Muslim Brotherhood figures from the country. "Saudi and U.S. pressures were...

Muslim Brotherhood sources said that Qatar has asked seven senior leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood to leave the country within a week. A leader of the Freedom...

The release of 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights was down to Qatar's mediation, Doha announced. A statement by the Qatari foreign ministry said that Qatar mediated...

The ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi may face a death sentence in the Qatar espionage case, the official news agency MENA reported Sunday, citing judicial sources. According to the...

In a telephone call with a Hamas official yesterday evening, Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani said that Gaza had raised the heads of the Arabs and Muslims around...

On 27 August 2014, a high-ranking Saudi delegation arrived in Doha consisting of Prince Saud Al Faisal, Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, the President of the General Intelligence,...

Arab Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Dr Abdullatif Al-Zayani said GCC Foreign Ministers will review, during their meeting in Jeddah next Saturday, the final report of the committee which follows...