Iran attacks U.S. military base in Qatar with missiles

Iran on Monday launched what its armed forces called a “powerful and destructive missile strike on the United States’ Al-Udeid military base in Qatar.”

Explosions were heard in the skies over Doha, the capital of Qatar. The Al-Udeid Air Base, whose 10,000 or so service members make it the largest American military installation in the Middle East, is located near Doha.

Qatar’s Defense Ministry said its air defense had successfully intercepted the missile attack on Al-Udeid, and that there were no reported deaths or injuries.

NBC News reported that U.S. forces were braced for an imminent attack from Iran on sites in Iraq and Bahrain. A semi-official Iranian outlet reported that Iran had also launched a strike against an American base in Iraq.

The attack came in retaliation for U.S. B-2 bombers and cruise missiles striking nuclear development facilities in Iran on Saturday.

The price of crude oil fell in trading Monday after news of the attack broke.

Qatar closed its airspace shortly before the attack was reported.

President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and other officials were in the White House’s Situation Room monitoring developments in the Middle East.

Trump visited the U.S. base in Qatar in mid-May.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, in a statement on X, said, “We express the State of Qatar’s strong condemnation of the attack on Al Udeid Air Base by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and consider it a flagrant violation of the State of Qatar’s sovereignty and airspace, as well as of international law and the United Nations Charter.”

“We affirm that the State of Qatar reserves the right to respond directly in a manner proportional to the nature and scale of this blatant aggression and in accordance with international law,” the spokesman said.

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