Qatar agreed in recent weeks to kick Hamas out of its country following a request from the US to do so, capping off months of failed attempts to try to get the militant group – whose top leaders reside in the Qatari capital of Doha – to accept a ...

Qatari officials have agreed to kick Hamas leaders out of their country after they were asked to do so by the Biden administration, according to a U.S. official.

It will not return as a mediator until both sides show ‘a sincere willingness to return to the negotiating table’.