Ms. Ecanow is a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of…
The organization is a decentralized, transnational Islamist movement dedicated to the mission of establishing a global caliphate.

The burgeoning relationship between Qatar and Russia signals that the Kremlin is not as globally isolated as the West desires it to be — and Doha is not as neutral as it pretends to be.

Doha has simultaneously fanned the flames of the Gaza war while also purporting to help try and end it.


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