President Donald Trump and his administration found an unlikely show of support from Qatari media amid a knockdown-dragout battle to shape the media narrative surrounding Operation Epic Fury.

Al Jazeera, a state media outlet of the Qatari government that is widely viewed as one of the administration’s sharpest critics, published an op-ed on Monday asserting that the “US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working” and explicitly rebuking skeptics.