Tag: Qatar

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, commended the five Arab countries who have joined in on the airstrikes while others offered limited praise while continuing to slam President Obama for failing to take action sooner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans offer tepid praise for airstrikes in Syria

Susan Crabtree · September 23, 2014 1:50 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, photo, U.S. troops listen to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel as he speaks at the al Udeid air base in Qatar. Just miles from where former Guantanamo Bay terror suspects have resettled, American warplanes take off from a Qatar air base in the global war on extremism. Tiny but rich Qatar is an intriguing player in what President Barack Obama says will be a long battle to stop and eventually destroy the Islamic State group. The U.S. uses the air base as its main air operations center for the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)

Tiny Qatar plays outsize role in US war strategy

ROBERT BURNSADAM SCHRECK · September 15, 2014 7:17 pm

Qatar expels Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leaders

National Security

Qatar expels Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leaders

Maggie Michael · September 13, 2014 12:13 pm

Building the broadest coalition possible to help degrade and dismantle Islamic State should be part of any plan to not just confine Islamic State but dismantle it, but given the U.S. track record in the region, it's no easy feat. (AP Photo)

National Security

Building anti-Islamic State coalition could be a heavy lift

Susan Crabtree · September 10, 2014 11:44 am

A report from the New York Times details how some think tanks made deals with foreign governments to lobby elected officials on their behalf. (iStock)

Top D.C. think tanks get cash for helping push other countries’ agendas

Jennifer Peebles · September 7, 2014 2:46 pm

This undated photo released by the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) shows GNRD employee, Krishna Upadhyaya, at an unknown location. Two Britons, Upadhyaya and Ghimire Gundev, researching migrant worker issues in Qatar, the Gulf nation that is due to host the 2022 World Cup, have gone missing after Upadhyaya reported they were being harassed by police, according to the Norwegian human rights group that employs them. GNRD said Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, that researcher Upadhyaya, 52, and photographer Gundev, 36, were supposed to leave Qatar via the capital Doha on Sunday. (AP Photo/GNRD)

Rights group says staff go missing in Qatar

Adam Schreck · September 4, 2014 6:31 pm

Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah, left, arrives to attend a meeting of Gulf foreign ministers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Saturday Aug. 30, 2014. The meeting of Gulf foreign ministers ended on Saturday without a clear way out of a monthslong diplomatic spat with Qatar, although some envoys signaled that progress had been made. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar in March in an unprecedented public protest largely believed to be spurred by the tiny nation's support for Islamist groups in Egypt, Libya, the Gaza Strip and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

Gulf meeting ends without clear end to Qatar spat

abdullah-alshihri · August 30, 2014 7:31 pm

Qatar denies funding extremist Islamic State group

Adam Schreck · August 24, 2014 1:26 pm

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, as the then Emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, looks on after signing an agreement in Doha, Qatar. The explosions rocking the Gaza Strip may seem far removed from the flashy cars and skyscrapers of ultra-rich Qatar, but efforts to end fighting between Hamas and Israel could hinge on how the tiny Gulf state wields its influence over a militant group with few friends left. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)

Some see Qatar’s hand in collapse of Gaza talks

Adam Schreck · August 21, 2014 6:37 am

Palestinian boys with Hamas supporters hold toy guns and shout slogans to support people in Gaza and Palestinian negotiators in Cairo, Egypt, during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Israel and Hamas are observing a five-day cease-fire which began at midnight Wednesday, in an attempt to allow talks between the sides in Cairo to continue. The negotiations are meant to secure a substantive end to the monthlong war and draw up a roadmap for the coastal territory of Gaza, which has been hard-hit in the fighting. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

EU says status quo for Gaza ‘not an option’

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHJUERGEN BAETZ · August 15, 2014 4:43 pm

Podcast: Obama Strategy For Gaza? Keep Iran Happy.

TWS Podcast · July 30, 2014 7:10 pm

If you want to read a stinging critique of Secretary of State John Kerry's Middle East diplomacy, take a look at Adam Garfinkle's take in The American Interest blog. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

A sulfuric denunciation of John Kerry’s Middle East diplomacy

Michael Barone · July 30, 2014 5:47 pm