Qatar secured a spot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup by finishing at the top of Group A in the fourth round of AFC qualifying ...

AL KHOR, Qatar — The $220 billion World Cup climaxed after 12 years of anticipation and controversy, with autocrats and the world watching, on a Sunday night that, for a while, was all about Qatar. It ...

There’s more to the story of the 2022 World Cup than hat tricks and corner kicks. The subtext of major sporting events, as ever, is the sometimes stinky business of bringing those events to the ...

A short way down the Corniche, the promenade that runs along Doha Bay, stands a large maroon hourglass cased in a ring of steel. A plaque reveals it is the official countdown clock to the 2022 World ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with H.A. Hellyer, nonresident scholar in the Middle East program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about Qatar's role as a mediator in the Israel-Hamas war.

To hear Donald Trump and his very generous benefactors in Qatar tell it, there is no big deal about the rulers of that Gulf State offering an American president a free $400 million luxury jumbo jet.