Afghanistan on Thursday received humanitarian assistance, including food and medicines, from five countries, an official said. The cash-strapped country, which suffered 20 years of war, is now in severe economic crisis, and poverty can …
More than 100 passengers have arrived in Doha, Qatar after flying from Kabul airport on the first flight ferrying out foreigners since a U.S.-led evacuation ended. Qatar, a major transit point for Afghan refugees, has said it worked …
Turkey has been enjoying good relations with three Gulf states – Qatar, Oman and Kuwait – for decades. However, Turkey’s relations with the other three members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – the United Arab …
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday he would travel to Qatar on Sunday to meet with the country's leaders and thank them for their help with evacuees from Afghanistan, and later go to Germany for a ministerial meeting, …
The United States is working together with Turkey and Qatar on Afghanistan’s Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. Saying that opening the airport and regional airports is …
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is further strengthening diplomatic ties to Saudi Arabia, reinstating an ambassador after a four-year-long regional dispute, Al Jazeera reports. Bandar Mohamed Abdullah al-Attiyah, who …
The Afghan government delegation and representatives of the Taliban terrorist movement (banned in Russia) will hold talks today in Doha, Qatar, a source in the Afghan Ministry for Peace said. The talks will begin on Tuesday …
Following a year of economic distress, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies are expected to return to an aggregate growth of 2.2% in 2021, according to the latest issue of the World Bank Gulf Economic Update
Taliban calls Turkey's military presence at Kabul airport 'reprehensible' but Ankara has deep-seated reasons to stick around
After years of closely cooperating on everything from Iran to oil, the Arab Gulf is entering a new era of wariness
On the night of July 15 five years ago, Turkey was cold-shouldered by its traditional NATO allies, primarily the US, while a rogue part of the Turkish army affiliated with Fetullah Terror Organisation (FETO) attacked the country's key institutions both aerially and by land, even running over protesting civilians with tanks
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has denied rumors that Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani did not attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in person because his face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin …
The proposed summit is said to be scheduled to open on April 16, but the pieces are all still in flux
“Normalization” is the buzzword around Turkey’s foreign policy this year and finally it seems that some results have been achieved. Turkish officials recently revealed that talks between Turkey and Egypt were underway regarding the restoration of ties and energy-related cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean
This weekend a powerful sandstorm descended on several countries in the Persian Gulf region, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The weather took a turn for the worse on Friday evening, with strong winds throwing clouds of dust and sand …
Doha hosted the first consultative meeting of the Russian, Turkish and Qatari foreign ministers on Syria. The ministers said that they will continue to hold regular meetings. Why does each of the three players need such meetings, and how …
Russian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu held talks in Doha on Wednesday. The meeting took place in the Doha International Airport where Lavrov arrived from Riyadh and his Turkish counterpart arrived from …
Russian and Turkish Foreign Ministers, Sergey Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu, will have a meeting in Doha on March 10, a source in the Russian delegation said on Tuesday. The meeting will be organized as part of Lavrov’s tour of the …
Russia will lift restrictions on entry for the citizens of Finland, Vietnam, India and Qatar and flights with these countries will resume on January 27, the Russian cabinet’s press service said. Russian citizens will be also able …
Saudi Arabia and its three Arab allies agreed to restore full ties with Doha at a summit in the kingdom on Tuesday, the Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud said. The minister told a news conference after the gathering of …
