What to know about Al Udeid Air Base after Iran attacked U.S. military post

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Iran took enactment to retaliate against the United States connected Monday, firing short- and medium-range missiles targeting the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar. Qatar's authorities said the missiles were intercepted, and nary casualties were reported, U.S. and Qatari officials said.

President Trump called the onslaught a "very anemic response" that the U.S. expected and "very efficaciously countered." He said successful a brace of social media posts that 14 missiles were fired, and helium thanked Iran "for giving america aboriginal notice, which made it imaginable for nary lives to beryllium lost, and cipher to beryllium injured."

Iran launched its missiles successful retaliation for U.S. strikes targeting 3 Iranian atomic sites implicit the weekend.

Here's much astir the Al Udeid basal and the relation it plays for the U.S. successful the region.

Largest U.S. subject basal successful the Middle East

A U.S. subject transport craft is pictured connected the tarmac astatine the Al Udeid Air Base

The Al Udeid Air Base is the latest U.S. basal successful the Middle East, located successful the godforsaken southwest of Doha. It was established successful 1996 and serves arsenic the guardant office for U.S. Central Command, besides known arsenic CENTCOM, which directs U.S. subject operations successful a portion stretching from Egypt successful the westbound to Kazakhstan successful the east.

The U.S. has astir 40,000 subject unit successful the Middle East. The basal successful Qatar presently houses thousands of U.S. troops. It had astir 10,000 astatine the tallness of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

President Trump visited Al Udeid successful May

Al Udeid was a large staging crushed for U.S. subject assets during the wars successful Iraq and Afghanistan. In May, it welcomed a sojourn from Mr. Trump, who told troops, "My precedence is to extremity conflicts, not commencement them."

"But I volition ne'er hesitate to wield American power, if it's necessary, to support the United States of America oregon our partners. And this is 1 of our large partners close here," referring to Qatar. "When we're threatened, America's subject volition reply our enemies without adjacent reasoning astir it. We person overwhelming spot and devastating force."

Other U.S. subject bases successful the Middle East

In summation to Qatar, the U.S. subject has bases and different installations successful 7 different countries successful the region.

US subject beingness successful the Middle East

Bahrain hosts the office of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, whose country of work includes the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea and parts of the India Ocean. The U.S. Navy has utilized the basal since 1948, erstwhile the installation was operated by Britain's Royal Navy. There are immoderate 9,000 U.S. subject unit successful Bahrain.

Kuwait has respective U.S. subject installations: Camp Arifjan Base, Ali Al Salem Air Base and Camp Buehring. Camp Arifjan is the guardant office of U.S. Army Central. Ali Al Salem, known arsenic "The Rock" for its isolated, rugged environment, is astir 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Iraqi border. Camp Buehring was established successful 2002, successful the run-up to the Iraq War and is simply a staging station of U.S. Army units deploying into Iraq and Syria, according to the U.S. Army website. There are immoderate 13,000 U.S. troops successful Kuwait.

United Arab Emirates has the Al Dhafra Air Base, located southbound of the capital, Abu Dhabi. It's a captious U.S. Air Force hub that has supported cardinal missions successful the region. It is shared with the UAE Air Force. There are immoderate 3,000 U.S. work unit successful the UAE.

Iraq has a continuing U.S. beingness astatine Ain Al Asad Air Base, supporting Iraqi information forces and contributing to the NATO mission, according to the White House. Erbil Air Base, located successful the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of bluish Iraq, serves arsenic a hub for U.S. and conjugation forces conducting grooming exercises and conflict drills. There are immoderate 2,500 U.S. troops successful Iraq.

Saudi Arabia has immoderate 2,700 U.S. troops stationed successful the country, galore of them astatine the Prince Sultan Air Base, located southbound of Riyadh.

Jordan's Muwaffaq al Salti Air Base hosts the U.S. Air Forces Central's 323rd Air Expeditionary Wing. Located successful Azraq, immoderate 60 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Amman, the basal has immoderate 3,800 troops. It besides hosts respective smaller U.S. installations, including the Tower 22 basal adjacent the Syrian border, wherever three U.S. work members were killed successful a drone onslaught past twelvemonth blamed connected an Iran-backed militia.

Syria besides has a U.S. unit beingness successful a bid of installations arsenic portion of planetary efforts against the Islamic State group. There are astir 1,000 U.S. troops stationed successful Syria.

A U.S. authoritative told CBS News connected Monday that they were not alert of attacks connected immoderate different bases.

AFP contributed to this report.

Lucia I Suarez Sang

Lucia Suarez Sang is an subordinate managing exertion astatine CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the manager of integer contented astatine FOX61 News successful Connecticut and has antecedently written for outlets including FoxNews.com, Fox News Latino and the Rutland Herald.

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