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Trump promises to defend Qatar, a reassurance after Israel’s strike

01 October 2025 17:22 (UTC +04:00)

The Trump administration has issued an executive order in which it pledged to guarantee Qatar’s security — including by taking military action — if the country were to come under attack, APA reports, citing the New York Times.

The order, dated Sept. 29, 2025, was signed three weeks after Israel launched airstrikes targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar, which outraged Qatari and American officials and raised questions about the strength of U.S. security guarantees for the Gulf nation.

The executive order appeared to be aimed at reassuring Qatar that such a strike would not happen again. It states that any attack on Qatar would be treated as “a threat to the peace and security of the United States.”

Qatar hosts the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East and, like many of its Gulf neighbors, has regarded the United States as a key guarantor of its security. That made the recent attack by Israel, a close American ally, particularly shocking to Qatari officials.

If Qatar were attacked, the executive order says, the United States should “take all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic, and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and of the State of Qatar.”