The attacks come after the US dropped “bunker buster bombs” on three key nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend.
Iran’s response this evening is the latest escalation in tensions in the volatile region.
People in Qatar’s capital, Doha, stopped and gazed up at the sky as missiles flew and interceptors fired – striking at least one missile in the night sky.
Iran announced on state television that it had attacked American forces stationed at Qatar’s al Udeid airbase.
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A caption on screen called it “a mighty and successful response” to “America’s aggression” as martial music played.
Qatar has said there are no casualties at the al Udeid base following the Iranian attack.
Iran also targeted the Ain al-Assad base housing US troops in western Iraq, an Iraqi security official told the Associated Press.
The attacks came shortly after Qatar closed its airspace as a precaution amid threats from Iran.
Just before the explosions, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on the social platform X: “We neither initiated the war nor seeking it. But we will not leave invasion to the great Iran without answer.”
