Russia’s support for its Iranian ally imperils years of economic and diplomatic engagement with Gulf states. Ukraine has taken advantage of this contradiction, offering Gulf states no-strings-attached operational expertise against a weapon that Kyiv knows too well. The resulting erosion of Russia’s footprint in the Middle East will resonate for years, if not decades to come.

Israel’s strike on Doha may have intended to pressure Hamas, but it inadvertently triggered something larger: a reordering of Gulf security.

The world must choose the path that safeguards the critical work of negotiators, because the alternative is the slow decline of the very channels that prevent war from becoming permanent.

Burgeoning German-Qatari defense cooperation is being derailed by domestic politics in Germany, posing no small number of uncertainties moving forward.

The Qatari monarchy is all too aware that Tehran’s upheaval today could be Doha’s uprising tomorrow, and responds to the Masha Amini protests accordingly.

Indonesia’s involvement in the Qatar Year of Culture reflects growing ties between the two states.

Doha has spent years building political capital with the Taliban. Now it will have an opportunity to spend it.

Next in our series on strategic commodities we examine helium, a rare instance of a key high-tech input that remains dominated on the supply side by the United States.

But the path to a post-oil future won’t be easy.

A desire to diversify export markets has pushed Indonesia and Qatar closer together in recent years, but there’s still a lot of work to do before the bilateral relationship can truly flourish.

The political dispute in Sudan is fertile ground for wider geopolitical machinations between the Saudi-UAE and Turkey-Qatar blocs. Is Sudan doomed to become the next Syria?

Without real change, the Arab Spring is destined to repeat itself.

Qatar attempts a financial rescue of its Turkish ally, markets rejoice as new US-China trade talks are announced for late August, and Ghazni city is liberated in Afghanistan.

Tunisia is attempting to maintain its foreign policy independence while navigating its triangular relationship with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. It’s no easy task.

Russia’s World Cup dividend is set to be short-lived. The same might not be true for Qatar in 2022.