The U.S. military and Qatar didn't respond to requests for comment over the damage, which so far hasn't been publicly acknowledged.

An Iranian attack on an air base in Qatar key to the U.S. military likely hit a geodesic dome housing equipment used by the Americans for secure communications.

Before-and-after photographs from a different agency also indicate that a radome inside the dome was destroyed, with some visible damage to a nearby building, likely caused by a bomb-carrying drone