Overview

• U.S. defense officials, cited in reporting, say the military was alerted only minutes before the Sept. 9 strike and could not intervene.
• Accounts in U.S. and Japanese media describe a launch from the northern Red Sea on a suborbital path, with eight F-15s and four F-35s also involved to target a site in Doha.
• American analysts used space-based thermal sensing to reconstruct the launch and trajectory and identified Doha as the target, according to the reports.
• President Trump met Qatar’s prime minister in New York on Sept. 12 as Doha pledged to take all measures to protect its security and sovereignty.
• Qatari state media report a Sept. 15 leaders’ meeting in Doha following a preparatory session on Sept. 14, and Secretary of State Rubio arrived in Israel for talks on Gaza and hostages.