Tag: Geography of Asia

Qatar Airways has made Doha a global hub in just a few years, but barring it from Gulf states' airspace ...

African Union chairman Alpha Conde on Sunday put himself forward as a mediator in the crisis between Qatar and other ...

Rashed al-Jalahma, 22, has lived almost his whole life in Qatar, but he now faces the decision of whether to ...

Kuwaiti FM says Qatar is willing to hold dialogue with Arab states that have cut diplomatic ties with Doha. Kuwait ...

A Kuwaiti court on Sunday sentenced a professed member of the Islamic State group to life in prison for an ...

The price of a pack of cigarettes doubled for Saudi Arabian smokers on Sunday under first-time tax measures to help ...

Qatar moved Sunday to avoid an escalation of its feud with Gulf neighbours by telling their citizens they are welcome ...

FIFA is confident the diplomatic crisis sweeping Qatar will normalise and not threaten the 2022 World Cup, the organisation's president, ...

Iran has sent five planes of food to Qatar, Iran's national carrier told AFP on Sunday, days after Gulf countries ...

Qatar has said citizens of states that have cut ties with the emirate will be allowed to stay in the ...

Chinese social media users on Sunday angrily criticised a Shanghai government crackdown on unauthorised real estate activity after images emerged ...

Energy giant Qatar Petroleum said in a statement on Saturday that it was "business as usual" despite a spiralling diplomatic ...

Barcelona fans in Saudi Arabia could be punished with up to 15 years in prison for wearing their team’s colours. ...

The Ashti camp in Iraq's northern city of Arbil on Saturday celebrated the return of a girl whose abduction by ...

Turkey's decision to station troops at a base in Qatar aims to ensure the emirate's security after Saudi Arabia and ...

Amnesty International warned Saturday of the "heartbreak and fear" being suffered by potentially thousands of ordinary individuals because of the ...

Moscow called on Saturday for dialogue between Qatar and its neighbours in the Gulf, promising help in mediating the crisis, ...

Myanmar navy ships battled high winds on Saturday as they scoured the storm-whipped Andaman sea for wreckage from a military ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan requested the full removal of a Saudi-led blockade of Qatar after approving the deployment of Turkish ...

Mr Tillerson said the blockade was having humanitarian consequences. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Gulf countries must ease ...