Israel’s Netanyahu apologizes to Qatar for attack on Doha, source says
- 29-Sep-2025
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to his Qatari counterpart for Israel’s attack in Doha during a telephone call from the White House on Monday, a source close to Netanyahu told Reuters. The call to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani came as Netanyahu met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington. […]
PM calls to form Arab-Islamic task force to ward off Israel’s expansionist designs
- 16-Sep-2025
Doha: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has emphasized the creation of an Arab-Islamic task force to adopt effective measures to ward off Israel’s expansionist designs. Speaking at the Emergency Arab-Islamic Summit in Doha on Monday, he said Israel must be held accountable for its war crimes against humanity. The Prime Minister reiterated OIC’s call to suspend […]
Rubio visits Israel in aftermath of Qatar strike
- 14-Sep-2025
Top US diplomat Marco Rubio prayed at Jerusalem’s Western Wall Sunday as he opened his visit to Israel, reaffirming the Trump administration’s steadfast support in its war with Hamas despite backlash over a strike in Qatar. The trip is taking place after President Donald Trump rebuked Israel over the unprecedented attack against Hamas leaders meeting […]
Israeli strike ‘killed any hope’ for Gaza hostages: Qatar PM to CNN
- 11-Sep-2025
Doha: Qatar’s Prime Minister said Wednesday that an Israeli strike in Doha, Qatar, on Hamas killed hope for hostages in Gaza as he called for his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to be “brought to justice.” “I think that what Netanyahu has done yesterday, he just killed any hope for those hostages,” Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh […]
Hamas official tells Al Jazeera TV top Hamas leaders survived Israel’s Doha attack
- 09-Sep-2025
DOHA: Hamas political bureau member Suhail al-Hindi said the group’s top leadership had survived an Israeli attack on Doha in a televised interview with Al Jazeera TV. The son of Hamas’s exiled Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya was killed in the attack. Israel launched an audacious attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar on Tuesday, expanding its […]
Israel to send team to Doha as Hamas pushes for phase two of Gaza truce
- 09-Mar-2025
GAZA CITY: Israel on Sunday prepared to send a delegation to Doha for further talks on the Gaza truce, as Hamas called for an immediate start to negotiations on the ceasefire’s second phase, which it hopes will lead to a permanent end to the war. Representatives of the Palestinian militant group, met with mediators in […]
Gaza ceasefire deal close after ‘breakthrough’ in Doha
- 14-Jan-2025
Negotiators will meet in Doha on Tuesday seeking to finalise details of a plan to end the war in Gaza after U.S. President Joe Biden said a ceasefire and hostage release deal he has championed was on “the brink” of coming to fruition. Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of an agreement on […]
PM Shehbaz due in Doha today for two-day official visit
- 30-Oct-2024
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to undertake a two-day official visit to Qatar on October 30-31, 2024, at the invitation of the Amir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. In this first leg of his ongoing foreign visit, the prime minister paid a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia where […]
Taliban govt representatives meet UN, Afghanistan envoys in Doha
- 01-Jul-2024
Representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban government began meetings on Sunday with UN officials as they attended talks in Doha with special envoys to the Central Asian country for the first time, a UN spokesperson said. The two-day, UN-hosted meeting in Qatar is the third of its kind in the gas-rich emirate in just over a year […]
Afghan Taliban govt says to attend next round of UN talks in Doha
- 17-Jun-2024
Taliban authorities will attend the third round of United Nations-hosted (UN) talks on Afghanistan in Doha, a government spokesman said on Sunday, after snubbing an invitation to the previous round. The Taliban government’s participation in the conference of foreign special envoys to Afghanistan had been in doubt after it was not included in the first […]