{"id":68903,"date":"2025-06-24T10:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68903"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:44:49","slug":"qatar-reopens-airspace-after-iranian-missile-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/24\/qatar-reopens-airspace-after-iranian-missile-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Reopens Airspace After Iranian Missile Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has officially reopened its airspace following a temporary closure caused by an Iranian missile strike on the Al Udeid Air Base, a key U.S. military installation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted Tuesday on its verified X (formerly Twitter), account, the Qatari General Civil Aviation Authority announced the resumption of normal flight operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The General Civil Aviation Authority announces the resumption of air traffic in the airspace of the State of Qatar and the return of the atmosphere to normal,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The missile strike was reportedly part of Iran\u2019s retaliation for U.S. attacks on its nuclear facilities over the weekend, marking a dangerous escalation in regional hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>Al Udeid Air Base, located southwest of Doha, is a critical hub for U.S. military operations in the Middle East and was among the targets hit during the Iranian strike.<\/p>\n<p>While no casualties have been confirmed publicly, the incident prompted a swift temporary suspension of flights as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>International airlines have since resumed scheduled operations through Qatari airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Qatar has officially reopened its airspace following a temporary closure caused by an Iranian missile strike on the Al Udeid Air Base, a key U.S. military installation in the region. In a statement posted Tuesday on its verified X (formerly Twitter), account, the Qatari General Civil Aviation Authority announced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68905,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68903\/revisions\/68905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}