U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad will travel to Qatar and Afghanistan on Tuesday to resume talks with the Taliban and the Afghan government on a peace process, the State Department said.
"In Doha, Ambassador Khalilzad will resume (...)
The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide bombing at an Afghan wedding killing 63 people, and injuring more than 180.
The attack took place in a minority Shi'ite neighborhood. IS said that in a statement that the bomber (...)
An Afghan policeman in the southern province of Kandahar opened fire on his colleagues, killing seven other policemen before fleeing the scene, a provincial official said Monday. The Taliban claimed the attack, saying the policeman had joined their (...)
Several soccer governing bodies and rights holders issued a joint statement on Wednesday to collectively condemn what they called the theft of their intellectual property by channel beoutQ, which carried pirated broadcasts of global sports events to (...)
Saudi Arabia's stock market rose for the eighth straight session on Wednesday, led by its banks, while other Gulf markets were mixed, with financial stocks dragging Abu Dhabi lower.
Saudi Arabia's main index gained 0.1. The index has been rising (...)
Jordan appointed a new ambassador to Qatar on Tuesday, a step toward restoring normal relations two years after Amman withdrew its ambassador in solidarity with Gulf Arab allies who severed ties with Doha.
Amman downgraded its diplomatic (...)
United States President, Donald Trump, emphasised on Monday that Qatar is an important ally to his country, expressing his gratitude for the expansion of the US "Al Udeid Air Base" military base, located southeast of Doha, through Qatari (...)
A Qatari official has announced the success of Afghan peace talks held this week in Doha, the Qatari foreign ministry said in a statement dated Monday and published on Tuesday.
"We are very pleased today to reach a joint statement as a first step to (...)
The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's (KVIFF) Eastern Promises, the Industry section, has announced its rewards on Friday.
Eastern Promises has the exciting mission of being a bridge between talented filmmakers from the east and their (...)
A Taliban attack on a government security compound in central Afghanistan on Sunday killed at least eight security personnel and six civilians and wounded more than 140, officials said, as rival Afghan groups met in Qatar to discuss peace.
Islamist (...)
Egypt condemned on Saturday the two terror attacks which targeted a market and a mosque in the north and centre of Afghanistan, killing and injuring dozens of people, according to a statement by the ministry of foreign affairs.
The Afghani radical (...)
Qatar's ruling emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on July 9 to exchange views on the latest regional and international developments, Qatar's state news agency said on Saturday.
The White (...)
U.S. and Taliban officials decided on Saturday to put their ongoing peace talks on hold for two days to allow for a meeting between rival Afghan groups to be held in Qatar, Taliban and U.S. officials said.
The warring sides started a seventh round (...)
Negotiators for the United States and Taliban Islamist militants will start on Saturday a seventh round of peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan, offering what one U.S. official called a "make-or-break moment" to halt 18 years of fighting.
U.S. (...)
Mohamed Fahmy, a former Al-Jazeera English journalist who was released from jail in Egypt in 2015, has been recently appointed CEO of The Investigative Journal (IJ), a newly launched online investigative news platform.
Since its initial inception in (...)
Cameroon's squad arrived in Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations late on Saturday after delaying their departure over a pay dispute, risking possible sanction.
They touched down in Cairo at around 11 p.m. local time, to be greeted by a small group of (...)
Mohamed Fahmy, a former AlJazeera English journalist who was released from jail in Egypt in 2015, has been appointed CEO of The Investigative Journal (TIJ), a newly launched online investigative news platform.
Since its inception in February, TIJ (...)
FIFA wants Saudi-backed satellite broadcaster Arabsat to stop transmitting pirated feeds of Women's World Cup games from a Qatari network, part of an ongoing sports television rights dispute linked to the Gulf diplomatic crisis.
Bootlegged feeds (...)
Arab leaders gather in Saudi Arabia on Thursday for emergency summits that Riyadh hopes will deliver a strong message to Iran that regional powers will defend their interests against any threat following attacks on Gulf oil assets this month.
Saudi (...)
World attention has turned to Mecca amidst the flurry of last-minute preparations for three emergency summits called for by Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud two weeks ago against the backdrop of escalating tensions between Iran, on (...)
هبطت طائرة أميرية قطرية، في مطار جدة الدولي لأول مرة منذ بدء الأزمة الخليجية، وحصار قطر في 2017، طبقا لرواد مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي.
وقالت قناة قطر اليوم على حسابها بموقع «تويتر» إن، «الطائرة الأميرية القطرية هبطت بمطار جدة،صباح اليوم، لأول مرة منذ (...)
Qatar has been invited by Saudi Arabia to attend two emergency Arab summits being convened in the Saudi city of Mecca on 30 May, Qatar's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
Last week, Qatar said it had not been invited to the two summits Saudi Arabia (...)
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday that his country was ready to engage in dialogue with Gulf Arab countries in order to address escalating tensions in the region.
Araqchi met Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin (...)
A Taliban delegation led by the movement's chief negotiator will visit Moscow this week to attend a ceremony expected to be followed by informal talks with senior Afghan politicians on the peace process, officials said on Monday.
The potential (...)
The president of French soccer champion Paris Saint-Germain is the latest sports official implicated in a sprawling five-year corruption probe that keeps spreading.
Prosecutors in France have implicated Nasser al-Khelaifi - who leads Qatar-owned (...)
