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Iranian attacks on Qatar/What is known about the US Al-Udeid air base

2025-06-23 20:02:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Iranian attacks on Qatar/What is known about the US Al-Udeid air base

Al-Udeid Air Base (Arabic: ????? ?????? ??????‎) is one of two military bases southwest of Doha, Qatar, also known as Abu Nakhlah Airport.

It is home to the Emir of Qatar Air Force, the United States Air Force, the Royal Air Force, and other foreign forces. It is home to a forward headquarters of the United States Central Command, the headquarters of the United States Air Forces Central Command, the No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF, and the 379th Expeditionary Air Wing USAF.

According to media reports in June 2017, the base housed over 11,000 US and Coalition anti-ISIS coalition forces and over 100 operational aircraft.

Iranian attacks on Qatar/What is known about the US Al-Udeid air base

The base's official recognition came in March 2002, when Vice President Dick Cheney stopped there during a trip to the region with a group of journalists. In April 2003, shortly after the start of the US-led invasion of Iraq, the US Combat Air Operations Center for the Middle East was moved from Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia to what was then a backup headquarters built the year before in Qatar, which was seen as a more suitable location for the deployment of US troops to the base.

Al-Udeid and other facilities in Qatar serve as logistics, command and base centers for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of ??operations and oversee U.S. air operations in countries including Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria./CNA





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