U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. will allow Qatar to build a facility at an Air Force base in Idaho — just months after Qatar gifted the Pentagon with a luxury jet that President Donald Trump plans to use for Air Force One.

Hegseth, 45, made the announcement during a meeting with his Qatari counterpart, Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Friday, Oct. 10.

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Hegseth said that Qatari pilots will train alongside U.S. troops, and that the arrangement will be mutually beneficial to both the U.S. and Qatar.

“Today we’re announcing [and] signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho. The l

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