Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

January 30, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Terrorists Benefit from Qatar’s Goodwill and Charity

On Monday, President Joe Biden will have a busy meeting at the White House with Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad. Qatar hosts one of the biggest U.S military bases in the Gulf region and has been instrumental...

July 23, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Jonathan Spyer

US investigates Qatar over claims that it finances Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps

The State Department has opened an inquiry into an Israeli government report that Qatar’s monarchy funded Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. “We...

October 28, 2020 | Jonathan Spyer, Benjamin Weinthal

America Should Not Sell F-35 Fighter Planes to the Qatari Regime

Israeli energy minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking to the Ynet website on Sunday, expressed concern that despite Jerusalem’s objections, Qatar will eventually acquire state-of-the-art Lockheed Martin...

September 21, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Fear grows for jailed Qatari royal amid health decline as wife pleads at UN for release

His wife is waging David vs. Goliath struggle against wealthy Qatari monarch

September 18, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Strip Qatar’s Homophobic Regime of the 2022 World Cup Now

There is no shortage of compelling reasons to relocate the 2022 FIFA World Cup from the small Gulf country of Qatar to another host nation. The frequently cited arguments range from Qatar bribing members...

August 5, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal, Jonathan Spyer

Qatar’s alleged finance of Hezbollah terrorist movement puts US troops at risk, dossier claims

There are nearly 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Middle Eastern country

January 31, 2020 | Varsha Koduvayur |

American Citizen Sues Qatari Bank for Funding Terror

An American photojournalist kidnapped and tortured by a Syrian terror group is suing Qatar Islamic Bank for allegedly funding it. The case reinforces Qatar’s ongoing challenges in tackling terror finance...

June 14, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer, Varsha Koduvayur

Kuwait and Oman Are Stuck in Arab No Man’s Land

Just over a year ago, four of America’s Arab allies — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt — severed relations with Qatar, another key U.S. ally. They enac...

April 9, 2018 | Varsha Koduvayur

Trump should confront Qatar on its support for Hamas in upcoming White House meeting

As Qatar’s leader – Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani – prepares for a White House ...

April 9, 2018 | Alexandra N. Gutowski, Varsha Koduvayur

Retail Therapy: Isolated Qatar Hopes Spending Will Spur New Alliances

Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani is set to visit the White House on April 10 where he will ...

July 26, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Does Al Jazeera deserve to die?

The Gulf Cooperation Council comprises six nations, all of them Arab, Muslim, ruled by royals, and fabulously wealthy thanks to vast reserves of petroleum. With so much in common, you might expec...

June 14, 2017 | Clifford D. May

The Qatar Ultimatum

In the aftermath of the terrorist atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush drew a line in the sand. “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make,” he annou...

June 9, 2017 | David Weinberg |

Qatar vs. Saudi Arabia: How Iran and the Brotherhood Tore the Gulf Apart

The Gulf monarchies face the most serious crisis in their history. It is largely being covered as a diplomatic spat, since several Arab nations terminated their relations with Qatar on Monday to...

May 11, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

By Hosting Hamas, Qatar is Whitewashing Terror

After getting booted from their first two hotels in Qatar over concerns of violating U.S. terror finance sanct...

May 10, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Fooling many of the people, much of the time

“Hamas Drops Call for Israel’s Destruction,” headlined The Wall Street Journal last week. The New York Times told its readers: “Hamas Moderates Talk on Israel.” And...

April 21, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

Time for the US to stop Qatar’s support for terror

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is on a Mideast tour to “continue efforts to strengthen regional security architectures.” While his meetings in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel are li...

January 18, 2017 | |

Qatar and Terror Finance

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June 30, 2016 | David Weinberg |

Gulf Monarchies Condemned Orlando Attack While Promoting Hate Preachers: Government-Sponsored Cleric

America’s Gulf allies talk a good game against terrorism. They ...

May 2, 2016 | David Weinberg

Hate Preachers on Qatar Campus: Obama Gives Qatar Undeserved A+ on Fighting Incitement

“Kill the infidels... Count them in number and do not spare one.” Blatant religious incitement of this sort feels like such a caricature of radical Is...

November 4, 2015 |

Michelle’s Dangerous Journey to Qatar

First Lady Michelle Obama, on her first solo trip to the Middle East, is scheduled Wednesday...