{"id":12611,"date":"2026-05-10T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/unknown-projectile-hits-cargo-ship-near-doha-fire-gulf\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:11:08","slug":"unknown-projectile-hits-cargo-ship-near-doha-fire-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/unknown-projectile-hits-cargo-ship-near-doha-fire-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Projectile Hits Cargo Ship Near Doha, Causes Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Maritime Trade Organization has reported that a cargo ship was struck by unknown projectiles 23 miles northeast of Doha, the capital of Qatar. Following the incident, a fire broke out on the vessel but was later contained.<\/p>\n<p>According to released information, the incident occurred in waters near the coast of Qatar in the Persian Gulf, an area known as a major transit route for commercial ships and oil tankers. Details regarding the type of projectiles and the possible perpetrators have not yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not provided further information about the extent of the damage or the condition of the ship&#8217;s crew. Investigations into how the incident occurred are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no group or country has claimed responsibility for the event, and official sources have not released any new details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cargo ship near Doha was hit by unknown projectiles, causing a fire that was later extinguished. Authorities are investigating the incident in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}