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Qatar

Iran’s revolutionary regime is built to resist shocks
13:18
Iran conflict widens, triggering instability across the Middle East
8:05
On Trump state visit to the UK, the two leaders agree to disagree
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50:30
The fallout from Israel’s strike on Qatar
4:53
Israel attempts to assassinate Hamas leadership in Qatar
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51:00
Israel attempts to assassinate Hamas leadership in Doha apartment
5:28
Amid blistering heat, Doha air-conditions the outdoors
4:07
Qatar brokers talks between DRC, Rwanda and M23 rebel group
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48:03
DRC, Rwanda and M23 rebel group agree to a ceasefire
5:18
Texas A&M to shut Qatar campus over charges of a disinformation campaign
4:57
Gaza ceasefire talks to resume next week
0:32
Getting mpox vaccines to infected people across Africa
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48:06
Gaza talks ‘off to a promising start’
4:01
Officials meet for talks to find an end to the war in Gaza
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48:53
Negotiations to end the war in Gaza
5:44
Pope Francis meets with comedians at G7
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49:36
Amid blistering heat, Doha air conditions the outdoors
4:07
Israel-Hamas war
‘It’s a lifelong injury’: From Gaza to Doha, children bear the scars of war 
India deals with acute stress amid record-breaking temperatures
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48:30
In Qatar, families evacuated from Gaza help kids process grief
5:55
Inside the compound in Doha hosting 1,500 Gaza evacuees
6:27
In Doha, children evacuated from Gaza bear the scars of war
6:30
Qatar reevaluates role as Gaza war mediator
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48:23
Qatar says it’s reevaluating role as Gaza war mediator
5:49
Two students working on a computer
The World's Global Classroom
Texas A&M is shutting down its Qatar campus amid charges of a disinformation campaign
Argentinian players celebrate after winning penalty shootout during the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. 
Sports
Argentina hailed World Cup champions after dramatic win
A giant inflatable copy of the trophy is displayed prior to the start of the World Cup group A soccer match between Qatar and Ecuador at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Nov. 20, 2022.
Sports
Qatar opens World Cup with lavish half-hour ceremony
Branding is displayed near the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, in Doha, Qatar, March 31, 2022.
Human rights
Qatar treatment of migrant workers under spotlight again ahead of World Cup
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is shown looking to his right while walking and wearing a dark face mask with a solider stands in the distance.
Top of The World
US top diplomats visit Persian Gulf to reassure allies
A group of six men are shown holding guns and wearing military fatigues with the domestic departure entrance to the Kabul airport.
Afghanistan
Qatar says it’s not clear when Kabul airport will reopen
Soldiers are shown standing guard near a barbed-wire fence with a larger crowd of people shown standing and waiting.
Afghanistan
Taliban announce ‘amnesty,’ urge women to join government
Woman in blue outfit holding up her arms
Women & Gender
Women in Afghanistan push for rights and more representation amid ongoing talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban
Smoke plumes from airstrikes in Gaza.
Conflict & Justice
Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire
A group of schoolboys are escorted by Nigerian military and officials following their release after they were kidnapped last week, Dec. 18, 2020, Katsina, Nigeria.
Top of The World
344 schoolboys return home in northwestern Nigeria; Milley meets with Taliban in Doha; Pence gets vaccine on TV
Several members of the Taliban negotiating delegation are shown seated in chairs spaced several feet from each other in a large room.
Conflict & Justice
Taliban welcome Trump tweet promising early troop withdrawal
President Donald Trump points as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden listens during the first presidential debate, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Top of The World
Foreign observers see rancorous US debate; Kuwait swears in new emir; UK, Canada impose sanctions on Lukashenko
Delegates attend talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 12, 2020.
Women & Gender
Afghan women negotiating with the Taliban say they feel ‘heavy responsibility’
Protesters with old Belarusian national flags march during a rally protesting the recent presidential election, Minsk, Belarus, Sept. 13, 2020.
Top of The World
Lukashenko meets with Putin; Indian parliament convenes for first time in 6 months; Afghan peace talks kick off
India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, left, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a photo on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Moscow, Russia, Sep
Top of The World
India and China pull back from the brink; intra-Afghan talks to begin; Germany and Russia investigate Navalny case
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is shown standing at a wooden podium with two small microphones and wearing a protective face mask.
Top of The World
Hongkongers continue protests against threats to civil liberties; Brazil follows US in coronavirus outbreak as Qatar requires contact-tracing app
The tails of several aircraft from SAS airlines are shown lined up.
COVID-19
Governments offer aid as airlines forced to deepen cuts to flights, staffing
A picture of a tan building with barriers
Conflict & Justice
Why negotiations between the US and Taliban mostly take place in Qatar
President Donald Trump met with Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani
Global Politics
The Gulf sees Qatar as ‘an outlaw,’ but Trump needs everyone to get along
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just after departing a plane is greeted by Saudi's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 13, 2019.
Global Politics
Urging Gulf states to heal rift, Pompeo lands in Riyadh
Qatar's Minister of Energy Mohammed al-Sada speaks on a panel
Qatar is leaving OPEC. Other countries could follow.
An aerial view shows the diplomatic area in Doha, Qatar, March 21, 2013. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Enirates led other Arab countries in cutting diplomatic relations with Qatar in June 2017. Organizations with ties to Saudi and the UAE then spent mi
Global Politics
How a diplomatic crisis among Gulf nations led to a fake news campaign in the United States
The team in the changing room before a big match. Left to right: Kenneth, David, Binumon, Purna, Umesh, Padam.
Jobs
They are building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums — and dreaming of playing soccer.
An aerial view of Doha's diplomatic area March 21, 2013.
Global Politics
Middle Eastern rift with Qatar looks set to continue indefinitely
members of a battalion lining up in front of a palace
Global Politics
There are 28 other monarchies in the world
Doha, Qatar
Global Politics
Qatar responds to Gulf nations’ demands as deadline is extended
A general view shows the newsroom at the headquarters of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera English-language channel in Doha February 7, 2011.
Media
Al Jazeera responds to demands that it be shut down
qatar migrant football
Global Politics
In Qatari crisis, migrant workers caught in the middle
Turkish soldiers stand at attention
Conflict
Amid diplomatic spat, Turkey debates deploying troops to Qatar in a show of support
A Qatar Airways plane is seen over Doha, Qatar, June 5, 2017.
Global Politics
In tweets, Trump sides with Saudi-led effort to isolate Qatar
Airplane overlooking Doha.
Conflict
Qatar faces diplomatic crisis as Arab nations cut ties
Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter
Conflict
A massive US weapons deal with Israel means more weapons for its Arab neighbors, too
FIFA's newly elected president Gianni Infantino poses with the Qatar Workers Cup trophy in Doha, Qatar, April 22, 2016.
Sports
Would FIFA really pull soccer’s World Cup from Qatar if human rights abuses there continue?
At its peak Al-Jazeera America employed some 850 staff across 12 US news bureaus and a state-of-the art television studio in New York.
Media
Al Jazeera will switch off its American channel
Climate conditions in much of the Persion Gulf/Arabian Peninsula area will often push past the limits of human adaptability by the end of this century under current greenhouse gas pollution trends, according to a new report in Nature Climate Change. These
Environment
Climate change may soon make much of the Persian Gulf region too hot for humans
Aziz Ansari, the comedian and actor teamed up with a sociologist from New York University, Eric Klinenberg to take the pulse of global romance in the early 21st century.
Books
Strangers around the world gave Aziz Ansari the most intimate details of their romantic lives — their text messages