The United Arab Emirates hosts United States air forces at Al Dhafra under bilateral defence cooperation agreements dating from 1994. Vigil records the arrangement as it is publicly described: a standing hosting relationship, older than the war, that the 2026 campaign put under fire on the host's own territory.
The United States in the Gulf maintains a presence hosted by United Arab Emirates. A directional arrangement: the two parties do not hold the same position in it. Authored once and read from both ends.
الترتيب
- الحالة
- نشطساري المفعول وقيد العمل. لا يقول شيئًا عن مدى نجاحه في العمل، ولا عن الاتجاه الذي يسير فيه.آخر تغيير جوهري: 2026-02-28.
- ما يغطيه
- الدفاعالتمركزنقل المعداتفئات وثّقت المصادر أن الترتيب يشملها. ليست مقياسًا: فالعلاقة التي تغطي عددًا أكبر منها توصف بتفصيل أكبر، ولا تُعدّ أرسخ.
ملخص
A United States–UAE defence cooperation agreement was signed in 1994 and has been renewed and expanded since; the Al Dhafra base area hosts the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing and has been publicly described by both governments as the principal American air presence in the federation. Through the 2026 war the UAE absorbed nearly half of Iranian launches against the Gulf states, hosted Israeli air-defence systems for the first time, and is the state whose air-defence integration with the United States is furthest advanced. The arrangement is authored here because the Atlas and the Map already carried its two ends without the edge between them. Vigil has not read the agreement text and authors none of its terms.
لماذا يهم
Every forward United States position in this war stands on a host's territory, and the UAE is the host most heavily struck. The relationship explains why the federation's response to the war has been to harden rather than hedge, and it is the arrangement through which the air-defence integration the module's Watch tracks would run.
الاتفاقات
- United States–UAE Defense Cooperation Agreement · وُقّع في 1994-07
The founding instrument, renewed and expanded in subsequent agreements whose texts are not public. Operative terms are not authored.
الأحداث ذات الصلة
- حرب الخليج وما تلاها من تموضع للقواعد الأمريكية 1990 – 1991
عسكري · سياسي
- ضربات أمريكية وإسرائيلية على إيران تفتتح الحرب 28 فبراير 2026
Military · Weapons deliveries
المنظمات
البنى التي تعمل هذه العلاقة من خلالها. ليست أطرافًا فيها — فالطرفان هما الجهتان الفاعلتان المذكورتان أعلاه.
الأماكن
علامات ينشرها هذا الملف أصلًا. ولا يضيف هذا السجل أي دقة جغرافية خاصة به.
ما لا يزال مجهولًا
- The current text of the cooperation agreement and any status-of-forces terms are not public; the record states that an arrangement exists and what it publicly covers.
- What the arrangement obliged either party to do when the base area was attacked is not established; the activity series records reported attacks with their basis and nothing about the response.
أسئلة Watch التي تتصل بها هذه العلاقة
أسئلة تحليلية دائمة تمر الأدلة الخاصة بها عبر هذه العلاقة، ولكلٍّ منها آخر مراجعة لها. مستمدة من سجل Watch، ولا يُعاد ذكرها هنا.
جميع علاقات إيران–الخليج افتح في «استكشف»
التقييم حتى — 2026-09 آخر مراجعة — 2026-09-14