The U.S. has about 40,000 military personnel in the Middle East. The base in Qatar currently houses thousands of U.S. troops. It had about 10,000 at the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Iran targeted the U.S. military's largest Middle East air base with a missile attack on Monday, June 23, an apparent response to U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities days earlier.

Oman Air temporarily suspended flights to Manama, Dubai, Doha, and Kuwait after Iran attacked the US military base in Qatar on Monday night, June 23. Read More: Oman Calls for De-Escalation After ...

Trump’s announcement came soon after Iran launched a limited missile attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of nuclear sites.

Airlines diverted more flights in the Middle East on Monday after Iran’s armed forces said the country launched a missile strike on a U.S. military base in Qatar, exacerbating the region’s ...

Qatar, which saw the United States as its main protector in the Middle East, finished building the base in 1996, hoping to encourage the deployment of the U.S. military there.

The base hosts thousands of U.S. service members and served as a major staging ground for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the height of both, Al Udeid housed some 10,000 U.S. troops, and that ...

Speaking in Iowa on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that the military flight team that launched the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities will be honored at the White House on July 4th.

The U.S. military base in Qatar that Iran attacked on Monday is under the command of CENTCOM or U.S. Central Command, which is housed at MacDill Air Force Base.

The base, which is owned by Qatar and located 20 miles southwest of the capital, Doha, is a forward command post for U.S. Central Command, the military combatant command with overall ...