Tag: Qatar



US President Donald Trump concluded his Middle East tour in Qatar Thursday by reiterating his administration’s plan to annex the Gaza Strip, on the same day that Israel massacred over 136 Palestinians.

What is interesting about Trump’s Middle East visit is that it doesn’t include an Israel stop. The FT opinion piece gives us a clue as to why.

The appointment of Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as Interim President on January 29 marks the advent of a new era in Syria’s history. The New York Times in a feature article on al-Sharaa called the HTS an “Islamist rebel group once linked to Al Qaeda.”

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries are home for close to 31 million migrant workers in various sectors with the share of migrants many times exceeding that of natives.