https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-gulf-states-warn-us-not-launch-strikes-iran-territory-airspace
Qatar's Al Udeid Air Base hosts the regional headquarters for US Central Command. It has also hosted some Israeli military officials, MEE has previously reported , but it's not clear if those

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/qatar-and-kuwait-prohibit-us-from-using-bases-airspace-for-strikes-on-iran/
Both Qatar and Kuwait, which border Iran, have stressed their neutral stance and desire to avoid any conflict in the region. The U.S. has stationed its military aircraft at the Ali Al Salem Air Base and Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base in Kuwait, and at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which is the largest U.S. airbase in the Middle East.

https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-iran-syria-united-arab-emirates-dubai-1bf8c3f49a3742baaad795df05b9a85b
Qatar's al-Udeid Air Base, a crucial staging ground for U.S. operations in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of several American military outposts across the Gulf that are intended to serve as a bulwark against Iran, but now put Washington in a delicate balancing act. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates cut all ties to

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/14/united-arab-emirates-retaliatory-airstrikes-iran-00141460
02/14/2024 02:37 PM EST. Some Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, are increasingly restricting the U.S. from using military facilities on their soil to launch retaliatory

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Qatar has declared it will not permit the United States to use its airbase for military operations targeting Iran and Yemen.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/politics/us-qatar-agreement-largest-base-middle-east/index.html
In this handout photo from the US Air Force, an airman guides an F-16 Fighting Falcon during training at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, January 24, 2022. Capt. Mahalia Frost/US Air Force/AP CNN —

https://www.coastaldigest.com/middle-east-top-story/kuwait-qatar-ban-any-attack-their-air-bases-airspace-iran
The Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar is also the largest US air base in the West Asia region. The directives issued by Iran's two Arab neighbors come amid reports showing that Iran is preparing to respond to an Israeli airstrike that killed two of its senior military commanders in its consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 1.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-transfers-fighter-jets-to-qatar-in-move-to-prevent-iran-escalation/ar-AA1o4xAM
T he United States is expected to transfer fighter jets, armed drones, and other aircraft to Qatar in a move that will supposedly allow for its forces to be repositioned, the Wall Street Journal

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-09-20/exclusive-qatar-held-separate-talks-with-us-iran-touching-on-nuclear-drones
Washington suspects Iran's nuclear program may be aimed at developing nuclear arms, a charge Iran denies. The United States also says Iran has provided one-way attack drones for Russia to strike

https://theconversation.com/middle-east-crisis-us-airstrikes-against-iran-backed-armed-groups-explained-222768
Published: February 5, 2024 9:23am EST. US airstrikes on Iran-backed armed groups on February 2 have been anticipated for some time. Since the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, US forces in

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-deploys-stealth-fighters-to-qatar-airbase-amid-iran-tensions/
WASHINGTON — The US has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said Friday, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran. The Air Force

https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-attack-iran-breathes-life-into-nascent-us-led-alliance-from-qatar-to-israel/
The Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in 2018. (US Air Force/Alexander W. Riedel) ... the US will have to take greater action against Iran if it wants to strengthen the

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/04/us-sees-iran-attack-strategic-win-regional-air-defense
Iran's massive barrage against Israel just proved their point. A truck carries an Iranian 'Fattah' hypersonic ballistic missile during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in Tehran on Sept. 22, 2023.

https://apnews.com/general-news-27ebcdc92f8f42369271eeb7addd4eb6
Updated 1:33 PM PDT, June 11, 2017. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The political crisis engulfing Qatar stems from accusations by its Arab neighbors that it supports terrorism. Qatar denies the allegations, but its ties with Iran and embrace of various Islamist groups have brought intense scrutiny, made it a regional outlier and created

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/u-s-and-qatar-agree-to-not-release-irans-6b/3242146/
The U.S. and Qatari governments have agreed to block Iran from accessing any of the $6 billion it gained access to as part of a prisoner swap deal between the Biden administration and Tehran last

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-signals-iran-wont-access-its-6-bln-qatar-any-time-soon-2023-10-12/
The United States said on Thursday that Iran would not gain access any time soon to $6 billion in Iranian funds parked in a Qatar bank last month as part of a prisoner exchange and that Washington

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/world/middleeast/us-qatar-iran-prisoner-deal.html
Oct. 12, 2023. The United States and Qatar have agreed to deny Iran access to $6 billion recently transferred to the nation as part of a deal between Washington and Tehran that led to the release

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-12/us-and-qatar-agree-to-hold-off-giving-iran-6-billion-in-funds
The US reached an informal understanding with Qatar to hold off distributing $6 billion in oil revenue that Iran was allowed to access under a prisoner exchange, as the Biden administration probes

https://www.ft.com/content/2f1f2716-0904-44c1-bbf9-e2331867e848
The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House. Senior US officials have vowed to stop $6bn in Iranian funds held in a Qatari account from being transferred to

https://abcnews.go.com/International/iran-denies-involvement-deadly-attack-us-base-ministry/story?id=106755596
The Iran ian Foreign Ministry denied on Monday that the country was behind an attack that killed three American service members at a U.S. base in Jordan on Sunday. Thirty-four American service

https://apnews.com/article/timeline-iran-election-nuclear-f3beadc54c44a9ff74989cbf45d9a270
June 28, 2022 — Iran and the United States begin a series of indirect talks in Qatar over the nuclear deal. TENSIONS ESCALATE. July 17, 2022 — An adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Kamal Kharrazi, tells Al Jazeera that Iran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb, but has not decided whether to build one.

https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/jan/31/iran-threatens-to-respond-to-any-us-strikes-as-biden-weighs-how-to-react-to-a-base-attack-in-jordan/
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Wednesday attributed the drone attack that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan to the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed

https://www.ft.com/content/a5dd678e-e138-11e8-a6e5-792428919cee
Over the past year, Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, has been driven closer to Iran by a blockade imposed by four countries led by Saudi Arabia amid claims that Doha was sponsoring

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/06/sovereign-wealth-funds-corruption-illicit-finance-governance-risks?lang=en&center=china
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have existed for more than a century, typically as state-sponsored financial institutions that manage a country's budgetary surplus, accrue profit, and protect a country's wealth for future generations. 1 Yet, for the economies in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), SWFs only burst into public consciousness in the mid-2000s, when