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Trump signs an executive order vowing to defend Qatar in the wake of Israel’s strike
Trump’s executive order commits the U.S. to defend Qatar’s sovereignty with diplomatic, economic, or military measures after an Israeli strike killed a Qatari security officer, officials said.
- On September 29, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging the United States would treat any armed attack on the State of Qatar as a threat and respond with diplomatic, economic, or military measures.
- After an Israeli airstrike on September 9, 2025, killed five Hamas members and Corporal Bader Saad al-Humaidi al-Dosari, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Doha, Qatar during a Trump-organized call.
- The executive order extends NATO-style protections to Qatar, a tiny emirate of 300,000 citizens, and tasks the U.S. secretary of defense to coordinate contingency planning with Al-Udeid Air Base, which hosts around 10,000 American troops.
- Qatar's foreign ministry welcomed the move as a milestone, and analysts say it vaulted Doha into top U.S. allies while Trump's advisers leveraged the crisis to push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a Gaza peace plan this past week.
- The move goes beyond President Joe Biden's 2022 designation of Qatar as a major non-NATO ally, and the order's legal weight is uncertain since treaties need U.S. Senate approval and executive orders can be repealed; neighboring Saudi Arabia has long sought similar guarantees but was denied.
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Some Questions About Trump’s Order Pledging to Defend Qatar’s Security
On September 29, President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Ensuring the Security of the State of Qatar,” which sets out significant U.S. security commitments to Qatar in the event of an external attack against it. The order announces that “it is the policy of the United States to guarantee the security and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against external attack.” In pursuit of this policy, the order states that “the …
Three weeks after Israel's attack in Doha, the American President signed a decree to protect Qatar, following political pressure and good business.
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