{"id":113712,"date":"2025-10-11T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=113712"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:54:57","slug":"us-announces-deal-for-qatar-air-force-facility-in-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/113712\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces deal for Qatar air force facility in Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON(National times)- US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that Qatar will be allowed to build an air force facility at Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho that will house F-15 fighter jets and pilots. The announcement comes soon after President Donald Trump signed an executive order vowing to defend the Gulf Arab state against attacks, following Israeli air strikes targeting Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital Doha.\u201cWe\u2019re signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho,\u201d Hegseth said at the Pentagon, with Qatari Defence Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani at his side. \u201cThe location will host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training\u201d as well as \u201cincrease lethality, interoperability,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just another example of our partnership. And I hope you know, your excellency, that you can count on us.\u201d The Idaho base currently also hosts a fighter jet squadron from Singapore, according to its website. Hegseth also thanked Qatar for its \u201csubstantial role\u201d as a mediator in the talks that led to a truce and hostage-prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas, and its assistance in securing the release of a US citizen from Afghanistan. The Qatari minister hailed the \u201cstrong, enduring partnership\u201d and \u201cdeep defense relationship\u201d shared by the two countries. The Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar is Washington\u2019s largest military facility in the Middle East. Trump\u2019s close relationship with the leaders of Qatar has raised eyebrows, especially over its gift to the US president of a Boeing 747 to be used as Air Force One. Though the Idaho facility for Qatar had apparently been in the works since the last administration of Democrat Joe Biden, the deal prompted some hand-wringing on social media, including from far-right activist Laura Loomer, usually a Trump ally. \u201cNever thought I\u2019d see Republicans give terror financing Muslims from Qatar a MILITARY BASE on US soil so they can murder Americans,\u201d Loomer wrote on X.Hegseth, who never said it was a base, later wrote on the platform: \u201cQatar will not have their own base in the United States \u2013 nor anything like a base. We control the existing base, like we do with all partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON(National times)- US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that Qatar will be allowed to build an air force facility at Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho that will house F-15 fighter jets and pilots. 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