Qatar: UK air commander visits, talks Iraq

Chief of Staff of the Qatari Armed Forces Major General (Pilot) Ghanem Bin Shaheen Al-Ghanem held talks with UK Royal Air Force (RAF) air component commander in the Middle East Air Commodore Martin Sammy Sampson at Al-Udeid Air Base on 25 September. According to the official Qatar News Agency, they exchanged views on “matters of common concern” and ways of developing them. Sampson is commander of the UK’s air war over Iraq. On 23 September, he confirmed that Islamic State (IS or Daesh) had used rockets to try to down UK jets, but “when they do, they expose themselves and invariably when they expose themselves, we strike them”.