Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday that “negotiations on saving the JCPOA and lifting the sanctions on Iran have entered the closing stages,” as reported by Iran’s state Tasnim news agency.
Qatar, which will host the 22nd FIFA World Cup beginning in late November, announced the arrest of 60 protesting foreign workers on Sunday. The workers were protesting the lack of pay for their labor.
The EIA reports that the United States is the world leader in liquified natural gas exports during the first half of 2022.
The office of Prince Charles denied there was any wrongdoing in accepting bags full of cash as charity donations from a Qatari politician.
Taiwan’s foreign ministry on Monday condemned a recent decision by FIFA World Cup organizers to change Taiwan to “Chinese Taipei” on an official Qatar government website granting spectators’ permits for the upcoming soccer tournament, the Taipei Times reported Wednesday.
World Cup fans may find serious trouble if Qatari authorities catch them indulging alcohol or having extra-marital sex.
Eni joined Qatar’s $28.75 billion project to expand production in the world’s largest natural gas field after Russia cut supplies to Italy.
The FBI is investigating a retired four-star Marine general who commanded forces in Afghanistan and advised Hillary Clinton on her 2016 presidential campaign, as part of a probe into an illegal lobbying campaign for Qatar, according to reports.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) described the upcoming 2022 World Cup, scheduled to take place in repressive Qatar, as “a celebration of unity and diversity” this week after years of accusations of human rights atrocities in the country including forced labor used to build soccer facilities.
The clown show that is corporate wokeism revealed itself on Wednesday when FIFA announced its support for Pride Month.
The daughter of a Swedish Islamic State woman accused of aiding child rape was arrested while trying to board a plane with a young girl.
A homicide investigation was opened on Monday after a security guard at the Qatari Embassy in Paris was killed and a suspect arrested, the prosecutor´s office said.
The government of Russia complained in anticipation of a vote to expel it on Thursday that its potential exit from the United Nations Human Rights Council would “discredit” the body and erode public “trust” in it, despite some of the world’s worst human rights violators remaining on the Council even with Russia’s ouster.
In an apparent move of desperation, Germany has agreed to a gas deal with Islamist Qatar to try and wean itself off Russian energy.
AL Shahania (Qatar) – The lips pouted to perfection, the neck was long and poised, and the judges were sure that no Botox was involved as they awarded Qatar’s largest cash prize for a camel beauty contest in front of an enthusiastic crowd.
The United Nations voted on Friday to launch a new human rights panel of experts to oversee the conflict in Ukraine.
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asserted Thursday that Israel could be a “potential ally” to the Islamic kingdom.
Elite schools in the UK have been found to drop various pro-LGBT guidelines present in their British operations from their franchises active in the Middle East.
A group of women subjected to invasive gynaecological searches at Doha airport will sue Qatari authorities, seeking redress for an ordeal that sparked global condemnation, their lawyer told AFP Monday.
Disney-owned Marvel Studios’ latest superhero epic, “Eternals,” has so far been barred from showing in markets in the Middle East, and many wonder if it is because the film features an openly gay character.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Tuesday reported the Taliban has quietly permitted teenage girls to return to school in four of Afghanistan’s northern provinces, ostensibly because Taliban 2.0 is willing to “shape policy around cultural differences across Afghanistan, unlike in the 1990s, when they imposed harsh social rules on everyone under their rule.”
MADRID (AP) – Spain has started a new evacuation operation to extract more Afghans and their families left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
The Taliban terrorist organization boasted Sunday that the Biden administration has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to the newly declared Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Taliban terrorists said Sunday that Afghanistan’s skies are safe for the return of international flights, adding all technical issues at the main Kabul airport have been resolved.
The fourth and largest chartered flight carrying international civilians from Afghanistan to Qatar — since the Taliban took over and the U.S. forces pulled out of the country last month — flew out of Kabul Sunday with over 230 passengers, including nearly 70 American citizens and green card holders.
The Taliban reportedly agreed on Thursday to allow some 200 Americans and other foreign citizens depart from Kabul on chartered flights to Qatar.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday he accepted the Taliban’s repeated promises of safe passage for anyone seeking to flee the country.
The Biden administration is sending Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to the Middle East to discuss the future and safety of the region following a butchered exit from Afghanistan.
Indian Ambassador to Qatar Deepak Mittal met with the head of the Taliban’s political office, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, in Doha on Tuesday in the first official encounter between the Indian government and the Taliban since the jihadist terror group seized control of Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 15.
Many Afghan men left behind in Kabul, Afghanistan their wives and young children, the New York Times reports.
French officials allegedly met with representatives of the Taliban in Qatar on Thursday in their first official meeting since Afghanistan fell to the Islamist group.
Up to 100 Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan and seeking to resettle in the United States have been “flagged” by Defense Department terrorism watch lists, according to a new report.
At least one evacuee of Afghan nationality is said to have been detained at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base due to possible links to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The Biden administration’s claims of Afghan withdrawal preparedness are contradicted by a leaked email given to Axios on Tuesday that reveals evacuees landing in Qatar are met with a facility “awash with loose feces, urine, and a rat infestation.”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively on Friday that President Joe Biden’s “tragic” failure in his withdrawal from Afghanistan “didn’t have to be this way.”
The UK will send more aid cash to Afghanistan, but has promised this money won’t find its way into the hands of the Taliban.
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday sent special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to a meeting in Doha, Qatar, to ask Asian and Middle Eastern powers not to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government after it conquers Afghanistan.
Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar warned United Nations envoy Tor Wennesland on Monday the terror group would resume violence if Israel failed to allow $30 million in Qatari donations to be transferred to Gaza, Israel’s public broadcaster reported.
The Palestinian Islamic terror group Hamas presented an award on Wednesday to Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based network known for its anti-Israel news.
Qatar ordered the arrest of its finance minister, Ali Shareef Al-Emadi, on Thursday and relieved him of his ministerial duties as part of an investigation into his alleged “damage to public funds” and “abuse of power.”
