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Biden adviser meets with Qatari leaders to discuss Israel-Hamas negotiations

Aug. 27, 2024 22:00 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top Middle East adviser on Tuesday held talks in Doha with senior Qatari leaders on the efforts to complete a cease-fire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, as well as on the Qatari prime minister's meeting this week with Iran’s president,...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli forces rescue a hostage in Gaza

Aug. 27, 2024 21:50 PM EDT

Israeli forces conducted a “complex operation” to free a hostage in Gaza, the military said Tuesday. Qaid Farhan Alkadi was abducted during the October attack by Hamas that sparked the war in Gaza. Overjoyed family members sprinted through the hospital where he was brought after...

Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza on the eve of high-level cease-fire talks in Egypt

Aug. 24, 2024 16:07 PM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least three dozen Palestinians in southern Gaza, health workers said Saturday, as officials including a Hamas delegation gathered for high-level cease-fire talks in neighboring Egypt. Eleven members of a family, including two children, were...

Qatar Airways acquires a 25% stake in the private African carrier Airlink

Aug. 20, 2024 09:27 AM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Qatar Airways has acquired a 25% stake in the private African carrier Airlink, the airlines said Tuesday. No financial details of the deal were immediately disclosed. South Africa-based Airlink flies to more than 45 destinations in...

US and other frustrated mediators call on Israel, Hamas to resume Gaza talks, saying, 'no excuses'

Aug. 09, 2024 09:01 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar jointly demanded Israel and Hamas return to stalled talks on the war in Gaza next week, saying that “only the details” of carrying out a cease-fire and hostage release remain to be negotiated. “There is no further time to...

Mourners bury Hamas chief Haniyeh in Qatar as more escalation looms over the Middle East

Aug. 02, 2024 18:53 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of mourners converged around the flag-draped coffin of Hamas' slain political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the emirate of Qatar on Friday as the fallout surged from his death in an alleged Israeli attack. The funeral ceremony in Doha, Qatar's capital,...

Israel says it has confirmed that chief of Hamas' military wing was killed in a July strike in Gaza

Aug. 01, 2024 16:21 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Thursday that it has confirmed that the head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July. The announcement came a day after an apparent Israeli strike in the Iranian capital killed Hamas’ top political leader. ...

Al-Jazeera says two of its journalists killed in Israeli strike in Gaza

Jul. 31, 2024 14:38 PM EDT

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Two Al-Jazeera reporters were killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Wednesday, the satellite news network said, the latest Palestinian journalists working with the Qatari network to be killed in the war-torn enclave. Correspondent Ismail...

Israeli military orders the evacuation of Gaza City, an early target of its war with Hamas

Jul. 10, 2024 13:20 PM EDT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military urged all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south Wednesday, pressing ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and center of the embattled territory that has killed dozens of people over the past 48 hours. The...

Taliban and US envoys have discussed the release of 2 American prisoners at third Doha meeting

Jul. 03, 2024 07:44 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban's delegation to the third United Nations-led Doha meeting on increasing engagement with Afghanistan met with U.S. envoys on the sidelines and discussed the two Americans imprisoned in the central Asian country. Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters in Kabul...