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The Trump administration negotiated and signed the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan — commonly called the U.S.–Taliban or Doha deal — on February 29, 2020; it set a 14-month, conditions-bas...
The U.S. has approved construction of a Qatari Emiri Air Force training facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho — but reporting repeatedly states this is a facility hosted inside a U.S. base...
Donald Trump pushed for a near‑complete U.S. troop exit from Afghanistan during his presidency and 2020 re‑election campaign, culminating in a February 2020 U.S.–Taliban deal that set a May 1, 2021 wi...
The Doha Agreement signed 29 February 2020 set a firm calendar: a phased, conditions-based withdrawal of all U.S. and coalition forces “within 14 months,” effectively by 1 May 2021 . The Trump adminis...
Tucker Carlson interviewed Qatar’s prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, on The Tucker Carlson Show in March 2025; that episode drew wide attention and was reported as receivin...
Qatar hosted the Taliban’s political office in Doha from 2013 and was a central mediator in US‑Taliban talks that produced the 2020 Doha Agreement; critics say that hosting and a permissive domestic e...
The Al Udeid Air Base is the central linchpin of US-Qatar military relations, serving as the largest American base in the Middle East and the focal point for expanded defence cooperation talks followi...
Qatar and Egypt served as indispensable regional bridges between Israel, Hamas and the United States, hosting delegations, relaying proposals and using their unique ties to press for a temporary cease...
Qatar has pursued a broad, well-funded influence strategy in the United States that includes direct contracts with U.S. PR and lobbying firms, paid engagements of commentators and former officials, la...
The February 29, 2020 Doha Agreement committed the U.S. to a phased withdrawal of all U.S. and coalition forces within 14 months and promised sanctions relief contingent on Taliban commitments, while ...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has publicly condemned Hamas’s October 7 attacks and urged protection of civilians, and she praised the U.S.- and regional-brokered Israel–Hamas ceasefire/hostage deal in January...
Donald Trump Jr. said he saw “on a typical day” in Monaco that about 50% of supercars had Ukrainian licence plates, using that observation to suggest wealthy Ukrainians have fled and are spending mone...
The Doha Agreement (Feb. 29, 2020) committed the U.S. and its allies to withdraw all forces from Afghanistan within 14 months in exchange for Taliban counter‑terrorism guarantees and a timeline for in...
Former President Donald Trump repeatedly blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan while also asserting that his own 2020 Doha agreement set the terms for a...
have in recent practice been parked in large, state-linked commercial banks and financial centers that offer liquidity, political backing, and specialised legal frameworks; in the case the key players...
The preponderance of public reporting and security assessments identifies Iran as Hamas’s principal state patron, providing sustained financial, military and technical support over decades . At the sa...
African Union and regional mediators since 2024 relied primarily on ad‑hoc, regionally driven verification bodies born of the Luanda Process and complemented by quadripartite and international observe...
A review of the supplied DOHA/ISCR materials finds no published ISCR decisions dated since 2020 in the provided reporting that both (a) explicitly treat dual citizenship as a central issue and (b) pre...
Since 2020, the immediate DOHA/ISCR decisions explicitly provided in the reporting are scarce; the documents supplied are overwhelmingly archival, showing longstanding DOHA precedents that treat dual ...
Corruption remains a pervasive global problem: Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a global average of 43 with over two‑thirds of countries scoring below 50 and 148 co...