News from Qatar
30,764 news articles from publishers in Qatar, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.aljazeera.net with 12,500 articles, 40.6% of the total, followed by www.aljazeera.com, azagil.com. By language it splits into English (17,023), Arabic (13,734). Daily volume averages about 383 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 445 on 2026-10-15.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=QA&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=QA&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Qatar articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=QA&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22T22:45 | The Free Zones Authority provides international companies with a competitive platform to expand | kees.qa |
2026-10-22T20:20 | مبابي في الواجهة.. ريال مدريد يغير موقفه من الكرة الذهبية | www.aljazeera.net |
2026-10-22T20:20 | وكالة الخيش بالقاهرة.. أعمار تمضي وخيوط لا تنقطع | www.aljazeera.net |
2026-10-22T20:19 | لبنان يؤكد على حصر السلاح بيد الدولة ويبحث إحالة "شحنة المتفجرات" إلى القضاء | www.aljazeera.net |
2026-10-22T20:15 | اشتباكات بين نواب البرلمان في ألبانيا على وقع احتجاجات الطلاب | www.aljazeera.net |
2026-10-22T20:15 | اللون البنفسجي يكتسح المقاهي.. ما سر ترند "اليوبي" الفلبيني؟ | www.aljazeera.net |
2026-10-22T20:13 | 12 هدفا وملامح جديدة.. هل تكفي صحوة ريال مدريد لإسقاط برشلونة؟ | www.aljazeera.net |
2026-10-22T20:13 | قطر تؤكد دعم الجهود الدبلوماسية لحل أزمة هرمز وروبيو يشيد بوساطتها | www.aljazeera.net |
Who publishes it
The 10 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.aljazeera.net | 12,500 | 40.6% | query |
www.aljazeera.com | 7,508 | 24.4% | query |
azagil.com | 6,419 | 20.9% | query |
thearabianpost.com | 1,772 | 5.8% | query |
www.dbmena.com | 1,068 | 3.5% | query |
www.goal.com | 821 | 2.7% | query |
kees.qa | 450 | 1.5% | query |
www.ajnet.me | 120 | 0.4% | query |
www.philips.com.qa | 86 | 0.3% | query |
qatarpressobserver.com | 20 | 0.1% | query |
Languages published in Qatar
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
Domain zones used by Qatar publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| com | global commercial | 17,608 | 57.2% |
| net | global network | 12,500 | 40.6% |
| qa | Qatar | 536 | 1.7% |
| me | personal | 120 | 0.4% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 402 | |
2026-10-21 | 427 | |
2026-10-20 | 349 | |
2026-10-19 | 272 | |
2026-10-18 | 392 | |
2026-10-17 | 367 | |
2026-10-16 | 412 | |
2026-10-15 | 445 | |
2026-10-14 | 515 | |
2026-10-13 | 519 | |
2026-10-12 | 444 | |
2026-10-11 | 407 | |
2026-10-10 | 372 | |
2026-10-09 | 461 |
Combine with other filters
# Qatar, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=QA&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Qatar, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=QA&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Qatar, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=QA&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"