Qatar News

International trade unions have called on the FIFA international soccer body to prevent Qatar from hosting the 2022 due to that country's corruption, scandals and ill-treatment of migrant workers.

The German defense technology group Krauss-Maffei has won a $2.5 billion contract with Qatar. The Gulf nation is seeking to buy artillery systems and tanks.

The small Arab gulf sheikdom of Qatar has discovered even more natural gas reserves in an offshore gas field to its north.

Doha - More than a year ago about a dozen or so Taliban representatives came to Doha in Qatar to prepare negotiations with the US with the aim of eventually entering direct Afghan-to-Afghan talks with the Karzai government for some type of peace deal.

Renowned Qatari poet Mohammed Ben al-Dheeb has been sentenced to life imprisonment for writing verse that authorities claim insults the country's symbols and encourages the overthrow of the government.

Gaza - Suspicion and intrigue surround the current round of conflict in the Gaza Strip, after a senior Hamas commander is assassinated by Israel, as the Israeli Army amasses on the border.

Doha - Qatar has spent $4.3 billion U.S. buying up European properties during the last twelve months. This is equivalent to about six weeks of income from Qatari LNG(liquefied natural gas) exports.

Doha - Qatar allegedly offered over a million U.S. in bribes to the Syrian ambassador to Mauritania if he would defect and support the opposition to the Assad regime.

Damascus - Syrian rebels who captured 48 Iranian pilgrims from a bus are now claiming that the pilgrims are in fact elite members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Doha - The U.S. is building a missile defense radar station in Qatar. This is part of a series of U.S. actions designed to protect allies and U.S. facilities from an attack by Iran