The National Security Adviser, Qassem Al-Araji, arrived today, Saturday, in Doha on an official visit. Al-Araji will deliver a letter from Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to the Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, to attend the summit scheduled to be held in Baghdad at

LONDON – An international system to share coronavirus vaccines was supposed to guarantee that low and middle-income countries could get doses without being last in line and at the mercy of unreliable donations. It hasn’t worked out that way. In late June alone, the initiative known as COVAX sent some

The Parliamentary Relations and Foreign Affairs Committee stressed the importance of the results and outcomes of the conference of Iraq’s neighbors, “Baghdad International Summit”, scheduled to be held at the end of this month, with international and regional participation. Member of the committee, Deputy Amer Al-Fayez, said, in a statement

  More than 1,200 Afghans under a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program have undergone processing at Fort Lee, Virginia, since President Joe Biden announced U.S. troops would leave Afghanistan by August 31. As of Saturday, the Taliban had captured at least 19 of the country’s 34 provincial capitals. Many Afghans

HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani met today with Head of the Political Office of the Taliban Movement Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and his accompanying delegation. The meeting dealt with reviewing the latest developments in Afghanistan at the security and political

The third shipment of medical aid (Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines) provided from the State of Qatar to the Republic of Paraguay, arrived today in Asuncion International Airport. Attending the delivery of the aid was HE Minister of Foreign Relations of the Republic of Paraguay Euclides Acevedo, HE Strategic Affairs Advisor at

  As part of the ongoing efforts towards developing the cross-border payment systems in the Kingdom of Bahrain and adopting the latest technologies into retail payment systems, the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), along with the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), joined the Arabian Gulf System for Financial Automated Quick Payment

KABUL/ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday authorized another 1,000 troops — in addition to the 3,000 ordered earlier last week — to go to Afghanistan to assist in the evacuation   of U.S. personnel and other allies from Kabul as Taliban insurgents drew closer to the Afghan capital.

The Taliban have swept through most of the country, taking 25 of 34 Afghan provincial capitals over the past week. The insurgent offensive captured several of them Saturday, including the fourth-largest northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. City leaders surrendered Jalalabad to the Taliban on Sunday. Here is the latest: Aug. 15