At least three of five Taliban fighters swapped for the freedom of Bowe Bergdahl, a Taliban captive now being charged with desertion, are reportedly actively making efforts to join the terrorist cause once again.
FIFA announced that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will take place in November and December instead of the summer. The final is scheduled for December 18, only a week before Christmas.
In a demonstration of close ties between Tehran and the Palestinian terror group, Hamas chairman Khaled Mashaal, who has made a home in Qatar, met with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larjani on Wednesday during his visit to Doha.
The leadership of Syria’s Nusra Front Sunni jihadist group, which seeks as its primary goal the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, may push away from Al Qaeda in hopes to receive aid and assistance from the Gulf States, according to sources who told Reuters.
Three Al Jazeera journalists were arrested in Paris on Wednesday for illegally flying a drone in the city. French news agencies report that drones have appeared on several occasions in recent days above the Eiffel Tower and other Parisian monuments.
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WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said that at least one of the five high-level Taliban detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “could be expected” to re-engage in terrorist activities.
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A former Al Qaeda operative and Guantanamo detainee has been freed from an American citizen and sent home to the gulf state of Qatar.
On January 15, the United States confirmed it is sending approximately 400 soldiers to train the “moderate” Syrian opposition.
Russia is on a long-term holiday that started two weeks ago and ends on Monday, January 12. At that time, the banks and the stock exchange will reopen, and it’s feared that both the ruble and the Moscow stock exchange will fall sharply.
Hamas’s popularity within Gaza surged to its highest levels during the summer Gaza War, but is now fading after what was essentially a Hamas defeat in the war.
Hamas, the Sunni Islamist terror group that controls the Gaza Strip, has denied that the government of Qatar has stopped financing its activities, contradicting a report last week in Arab media that claimed Doha had ceased its funding of the jihadist group in an attempt at detente with Egypt.
Qatar has temporarily suspended its close relationship with Palestinian terror group Hamas, according to an Arabic newspaper. The policy comes as Doha has attempted to strengthen its relationship with the new government of Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
In recent years, the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas has developed into a truly international entity. Today, it enjoys three territorial bases of operation: Gaza, the seat of the Hamas regime, Turkey, and Qatar. According to Israeli intelligence estimates, each base