Earlier, a Syrian diplomat and a Qatari official confirmed to AFP that Shaibani had arrived on Sunday morning for meetings in Qatar, the host of the US's largest military base in the region.

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For decades, Qatar has used ties with Islamist movements as soft power to boost its regional and global influence.

The United States has told Qatar that ... Burns have encouraged Qatar, a key security partner that hosts a major U.S. military base, and Egypt, the other main interlocutor with Hamas, to lean ...

The report comes after a Hamas delegation in Cairo reaffirmed its commitment to seeing the implementation of a second phase ...