Qatar faced criticism over its mediation between Israel and Hamas, but after more than a year of war in Gaza, the tiny emirate emerged a winner after it announced a ceasefire deal.

Qatar is intensifying efforts to broker a Gaza hostage and ceasefire agreement ... the crisis and avoid a potential Iran-Israel-US confrontation. Qatar paused its mediation efforts in November, saying ...

Qatar's prime minister met ... months of unsuccessful negotiations for a Gaza truce and hostage release. In November, Doha announced it had put its mediation on hold, saying that it would resume ...

A ceasefire agreement in Gaza has been reached ... coordinated on the deal. Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister led his country’s pivotal mediation efforts in the stop-start negotiations.

Israel has kept up with its campaign in Gaza even as mediators have ... and the future of the talks is uncertain. Qatar and Egypt have led the mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas with ...

Benjamin Netanyahu's office said representatives of the Mossad intelligence agency and military would attend the talks but gave no further details. There has been no immediate comment from Hamas.View ...

At one point last year Qatar suspended its mediation efforts out of frustration with ... bid to try to end almost 15 months of war in the Gaza Strip. That started after a Hamas-led incursion ...