Iran on Monday launched what its armed forces referred to as a “highly effective and damaging missile strike on america’ Al-Udeid army base in Qatar.”
Explosions have been heard within the skies over Doha, the capital of Qatar. The Al-Udeid Air Base is positioned close to Doha.
Qatar’s Protection Ministry mentioned its air protection had efficiently intercepted the missile assault on Al-Udeid, and that there have been no reported deaths or accidents.
NBC Information reported that U.S. forces have been braced for an imminent assault from Iran on websites in Iraq and Bahrain.
The assault got here two days after U.S. B-2 bombers and cruise missiles struck nuclear improvement services in Iran.
The worth of crude oil fell in buying and selling Monday after information of the assault broke.
Qatar closed its airspace shortly earlier than the assault was reported.
US and Qatari troops and workers await US President Donald Trump on the Al-Udeid air base southwest of Doha on Could 15, 2025.
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President Donald Trump, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees Gen. Dan Caine, and different officers have been within the White Home’s State of affairs Room monitoring developments within the Center East.
Trump visited the U.S. base in Qatar in mid-Could.
Qatar’s International Minstry spokesman, in an announcement on X, mentioned, “We categorical the State of Qatar’s sturdy condemnation of the assault on Al Udeid Air Base by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and take into account it a flagrant violation of the State of Qatar’s sovereignty and airspace, in addition to of worldwide regulation and the United Nations Constitution.”
“We affirm that the State of Qatar reserves the suitable to reply immediately in a fashion proportional to the character and scale of this blatant aggression and in accordance with worldwide regulation,” the spokesman mentioned.
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