This president ordered airstrikes on five militia air bases in Iraq.
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The defense ministry did not respond to questions about the air bases.
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They have allowed us to use their air bases in time of conflict.
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The U.S. military operates air bases and outposts in the Kurdish-administered region.
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Over the past year, she had trained at air bases throughout the southern United States.
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Earlier this month Iran fired 22 ballistic missiles at two U.S. air bases in Iraq.
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But to execute its plan, the US needed air bases in range of Japan's main islands.
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Cutters were moved hundreds of miles away and planes secured on air bases, Admiral Brown said.
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Hurricanes have been pummeling air bases since the days when the damage was measured in blimps.
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Two air bases in the state have been used to house quarantined Americans repatriated from Asia.
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American authorities later reported there were no casualties from the Iranian attack on the air bases.
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Officials said they would be taken to one of two military air bases in the United States.
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The United States flew more than 22.9 passengers to air bases in California and Texas this week.
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And it has constructed air bases on an archipelago of artificial islands across the South China Sea.
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For the last 15 months, she has been training at air bases in Arkansas, Florida and Texas.
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The United States, which has crucial air bases in Turkey, cannot afford to alienate the Erdogan government, either.
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We built an impressive, modern infrastructure — air bases, port facilities, pipelines, the huge supply depot at Long Binh.
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In fact, return flights landed at military air bases like Travis, from which protesters would have been barred.
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Italy is a key member of NATO and has important naval and air bases for Middle East operations.
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Iran retaliated by launching a missile strike against two air bases in Iraq that were housing US troops.
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The Yemeni Houthi rebels with Iranian supplied missiles have targeted Riyadh, key Saudi air bases, and oil facilities.
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That assault prompted a missile salvo from the Iranian military against two Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops.
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Adding to tensions is Turkey's refusal to let German members of parliament visit soldiers stationed at two air bases.
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U.S. forces operate out of several military bases in Britain including the Lakenheath, Croughton and Menwith Hill air bases.
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The Kremlin has announced that much of the infrastructure will remain intact, including air bases at Tartus and Latakia.
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The Army already maintains a number of Patriot surface-to-air missile launchers at air bases in South Korea.
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Iran responded with a missile attack on Iraqi air bases hosting U.S. forces this week that left no casualties.
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The crash happened just hours after Iran launched more than 20 missiles targeting two coalition air bases in Iraq.
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This would allow the Indian Air Force to operate its fleet even if its air bases are crippled during war.
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Russia is very keen on maintaining a presence in Syria—air bases, ports—essentially just to remain in the country.
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"We will not allow Iran to transform Syria into forward base sea harbors, air bases and Shia militias," he said.
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More than 1,000 Women Airforce Service Pilots, known as WASPs, were stationed at 122 air bases across the United States.
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That expensive option is complicated by the inability of the United States to use Turkish air bases to enforce it.
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Should China and the United States go to war, it is "highly likely" that US air bases will be subject to kinetic and non-kinetic attacks, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said in a 2019 report, which advised the US Air Force improve the defenses of air bases and seek additional investments.
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The second was similarly drastic, an attack on Syrian air bases that would have almost certainly killed Russian advisers and aircrew.
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But if it allows Russian pilots to roam its air bases, it risks losing access to advanced American weapons and intelligence.
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And Russia is further extending its profile in the Middle East with a move toward using Egyptian air bases and airspace.
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His death triggered retaliation from Tehran which responded by firing ballistic missiles at Iraqi air bases housing American and coalition troops.
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Russia said 24 helicopters and six jets belonging to the Chinese air force had moved to Russian air bases for the exercise.
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The United Arab Emirates has stationed warplanes and drones at several air bases in eastern Libya to shore up General Hifter's forces.
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The 97 men had been involved in multiple major attacks on Pakistani air bases, a major airport and police installations, Bajwa said.
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But Turkey tightened its borders last year and allowed the U.S. to use its air bases for missions in Syria and Iraq.
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Offut Air Base in Nebraska was hit by flood waters in March and coastal air bases were slammed by last year's hurricanes.
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As the Kremlin pushes to expand its territory, Lukashenko has come under pressure to allow new air bases for the Russian military.
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He was seized by US and Italian agents in 2003, and transferred to Egypt via US air bases in Italy and Germany.
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It was not immediately clear what Egypt hoped to receive in return for allowing Russia to use its air bases or airspace.
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Five days later, Iran responded by launching its ballistic missile attack on two air bases in Iraq where U.S. soldiers are stationed.
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The repatriates arrived at one of two U.S. military air bases Monday morning via charter plane from the ship docked in Japan.
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said Iran appeared to be "standing down" after an attack on Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops.
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Singapore last month agreed to allow the United States to deploy spy planes to patrol the South China Sea from its air bases.
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Similarly, albeit on a lesser scale, Iran can threaten shipping in the Gulf, including American carriers, and American air bases across the water.
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An estimated 2,000 U.S. troops and military advisers are in northern Syria, and the U.S. operates air bases in the Kurdish-administered region.
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"Furthermore, the guided rocket could evade radars at key air bases, including the F-35 base in the mid-part of the South."
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said pro-government forces were emptying main airports and military air bases.
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The air bases that the United States uses to bomb the group are all in Turkey or Arab countries, as are American troops.
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America is spending $6bn a year on its European Deterrence Initiative, lavished on everything from Hungarian air bases to exercises such as Trident Juncture.
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China's main strength lies in its extensive missile program, which features missiles that could hit US air bases in Japan and Guam, experts say.
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"We thought he [President Trump] would strike all the air bases," al-Yousef told The Associated Press after fleeing over the border into Turkey.
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Air bases inside government-controlled parts of Syria were not suitable for the Tupolev aircraft, and adapting them would be expensive, according to Kashin.
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Thailand hosted seven air bases that launched American military aircraft daily on missions to strike strategic targets in Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
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A draft UN resolution—proposed by the US, UK, and France—insists that Syria provide investigators with flight details and access to air bases.
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US forces will also have access to at least eight military bases in the Philippines, with two air bases in Pampanga, 330km from Scarborough Shoal.
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His father was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, and Bilott spent most of his childhood moving among air bases near Albany; Flint, Mich.
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The answer is none other than Hillary Clinton, who called for just this kind of strike on Syrian air bases just hours before they occurred.
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In South Korea, the US maintains two major air bases, Osan with F-2800 fighters and A-2150 "tank killers," and Kunsan with F-220s.
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In doing so, Moscow would recover an important former Soviet geostrategic asset in the form of a friendly Syria hosting Russian naval and air bases.
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Major US installations currently include Osan and Kunsan air bases, which host squadrons composed of F-16 fighter jets and A-10 ground-attack jets.
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They presented their case to members of Congress in briefings on Wednesday, just hours after Iran retaliated by striking Iraqi air bases housing US troops.
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The plane crash took place just hours after Iran launched a series of ballistic missiles against US and coalition forces at air bases in Iraq.
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The GNA's drone fleet has also been depleted by attacks on airports and air bases in Tripoli and the city of Misrata, northwest of Sirte.
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Russia broadcast footage of some of 24 helicopters and six jets belonging to the Chinese air force landing at Russian air bases for the exercise.
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Russia also uses air bases in Iran to launch missions in Syria to help the Assad government fight off ISIS and other anti-Assad forces.
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Russia says six of its long-range bombers have taken off from air bases in Russia to strike targets on the border between Syria and Iraq.
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Citing national security, the ministry said it had requested that sites such as air bases and nuclear power stations be obscured on Google's satellite mapping service.
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Turkey has taken some steps against the group, such as allowing the United States to use its air bases to launch strikes in Syria and Iraq.
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The Chinese government has built an archipelago of air bases on artificial islands in the South China Sea in between Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Citing national security, the ministry said it had requested that sites such as air bases and nuclear power stations be obscured on Google's satellite mapping services.
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Fortunately, though, you also can't help but be buoyed by the young men and women you meet visiting our key air bases in the war effort.
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Apparently he received a payment of more than $300 million when a Dutch company won the contract to build two military air bases in the kingdom.
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Between 2628 and 28503, the number of medical helicopters nearly doubled, from 22019 helicopters flying out of 472 air bases to 1,045 helicopters at 864 bases.
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After the country launched 26 missiles at American air bases, Iran said it was done with "proportional measures" in response to the killing of Maj. Gen.
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Iran struck American air bases in Iraq in retaliation this week, but the attacks are said to have resulted in no casualties, and tensions have eased.
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Officials said they would be taken on a charter flight to one of two U.S. military air bases, where they will undergo a 14-day quarantine.
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Officials said they would be taken on a charter flight to one of two U.S. military air bases, where they will undergo a 14-day quarantine.
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China claims a large part of the South China Sea, and has built artificial islands and air bases there, prompting concern around the region and in Washington.
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The 3rd Wing flew its B-57 Canberras and F-100 Super Sabres from different air bases all over Southeast Asia, totaling more than 200,000 combat sorties.
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Many defendants in this and previous trials denied involvement in the coup attempt or made light of their presence at one of the air bases that night.
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Timing: The plane crash occurred hours after Iran launched missiles on two Iraqi air bases used by U.S. troops as retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen.
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Guam, with a population of 160,000, is the closest U.S. territory to North Korea, and naval and air bases currently occupy about a third of the island.
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Stretching over a 186-mile radius across Shaanxi, the drone logistics network will service hundreds of flight routes and air bases designed to optimize shipping online orders.
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Western powers were concerned about Russia's upgrades of air bases and air defence systems in Crimea - the peninsula it seized from Ukraine in 2014, the annual report said.
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But because we need Turkey's air bases and cooperation to foster a modicum of democracy in Iraq tomorrow, we are silent on Erdogan destroying democracy in Turkey today.
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Western powers were concerned about Russia's upgrades of air bases and air defense systems in Crimea - the peninsula it seized from Ukraine in 2014, the annual report said.
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Mark Milley said he believes Iran's attacks on air bases in Iraq on Wednesday were intended to kill Americans and that advance intelligence enabled troops to take cover.
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Cover: President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops, Wednesday, Jan.
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Carrier proponent Bryan McGrath, the deputy director of the Hudson Institute's Center for American Seapower in Washington, said carriers are less vulnerable than stationary, land-based air bases.
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The U.S. must continue to show up in East Asia with our huge naval and air bases and the 37,500 troops we have stationed in South Korea alone.
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Turkey's foreign minister on Wednesday suggested that the U.S. may not be permitted to use two air bases in Turkey in response to possible sanctions on the country.
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Since 1996, the Chinese military has steadily expanded its umbrella of land-based missiles, strike aircraft, and submarines designed to overwhelm both US air bases and carrier strike groups.
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These so-called "austere" highway landings were relatively common during the Cold War as military planners sought contingencies in case air bases were destroyed in a large-scale conflict.
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A senior official who has worked with United Nations and OPCW investigators said two helicopter squadrons dropped chlorine barrel bombs, drums filled with chlorine canisters, from two air bases.
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The crash occurred shortly after Iranian missile attacks on two air bases housing U.S. troops, for which Tehran swiftly claimed responsibility as retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen.
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The US is also pulling funds from several overseas projects, more than $24000 billion, including from construction at air bases in ally nations like the United Kingdom and Germany.
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Because the Reagan library was situated across the country in Simi Valley, California, military cargo planes were employed, packed full of records and emptied at air bases in Southern California.
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In the first attack of its kind, Moscow said on Monday militants had used drones to attack its naval and air bases in the nearby provinces of Tartus and Latakia.
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This dependency means the foreign policy of Denmark is tailored to favor American interests — from allowing air bases with nuclear weapons to supporting the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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China is also projecting its power abroad, funding global infrastructure and constructing an archipelago of artificial islands with giant air bases reaching almost to the shores of Malaysia and Indonesia.
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The U.S. said that 15 missiles were launched against air bases in Iraq, while Iraqi authorities said that 22 missiles were fired during a 30-minute window on Wednesday morning.
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Iranian political analysts say there has been no sign that Iran is prepared to take one key step on Syria: granting Russia's air force full access to Iranian air bases.
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On Tuesday, Israeli media ran images of what it said were Iranian air bases in Syria – an indication that the sites would be targeted if Tehran followed through on its threat.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A senior Syrian rebel official called for international air strikes against all Syrian air bases on Friday after a U.S. missile attack on an air base near Homs city.
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"Whenever we deem it necessary, we will give them the use of our air bases," said Hamidreza Taraghi, a hard-line political analyst who has close relations with Iran's highest leaders.
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After the US lobbed 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria Thursday, attacking one of President Bashar Al Assad's air bases, North Korea said that its nuclear program was validated by the attacks.
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There's a good reason that fence is covered in so many warning signs, and it's not just because air bases like the Naval Air Facility El Centro in California house live munitions.
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"Among other things, they would be the last line of defense against cruise missiles launched by the United States or others against these soon-to-be-operational air bases," the report said.
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Some 800 U.S. nationals have been evacuated from Wuhan and flown to air bases in the United States where they are subject to the CDCs first public health quarantine in 50 years.
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The men are accused of involvement in major attacks on two Pakistani air bases, the Karachi airport, several regional intelligence headquarters and on police installations between 2009 and 2015, the military said.
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Goldfein, who spent last week visiting air bases in Europe and attending meetings with foreign air chiefs, said his counterparts were aligned with the US decision to remove Turkey from the program.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army has so far downed three Turkish drones that Ankara had been using extensively to hit Syrian army locations and air bases, Syrian state media said on Sunday.
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Iran responded with missiles of its own, targeting Iraqi air bases housing US forces, and subsequently US citizens were urged to flee the country "immediately" due to "heightened tensions" in the region.
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Assad said in an interview with Russia Today television which aired on Thursday that the U.S. troops, who operate air bases and outposts in the Kurdish-administered region, will have to leave country.
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"If you have air bases you can cover a larger area," he said, adding he expected the navy to permanently deploy more ships to the islands in the next phase of the buildup.
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Despite the presence of anti-missile defences—both American Patriot missiles and Taiwan's own systems—the island's air bases and many of its other defences might be quickly destroyed by all that firepower.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Pro-government forces in Syria are emptying main airports and military air bases over possible U.S. strikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Wednesday.
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The bomber made rounds to "familiarize aircrew with air bases and operations in different geographic combatant commands, enabling them to maintain a high state of readiness and proficiency," a U.S. military statement read.
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The United States will intervene to stop this effort, but there isn't a US ship within 4,000 miles of Taiwan and air bases across the region were vacated soon after the crisis began.
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The deal includes the country's largest army base and four air bases, including one on the western island of Palawan, which runs for 270 miles along one side of the South China Sea.
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Any doubts that Egypt has ceased to be a strategic partner to the United States were eliminated with the recent preliminary Egyptian-Russian agreement to grant reciprocal access to each other's air bases.
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Thousands of drums of the herbicide piled up at ports in the United States, at air bases in Vietnam and in small quantities at the drum yards of chemical platoons at Army camps.
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Qatar hosts one of the most important United States air bases in the Middle East: Al Udeid, home to about 11,000 service members in the anti-Islamic State coalition, most of them American.
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During World War II, American naval and air bases in Greenland helped the U.S. project power to counter the Axis powers, and later a Soviet Union newly armed with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.
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In 2017, the Russian parliament ratified a deal with Damascus to cement Russia's foothold in the country and pave the way for establishing a permanent military presence at naval and air bases in Syria.
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China has been upset at U.S. freedom of navigation operations near Chinese controlled islands in the disputed South China Sea, where China has been reclaiming land, building air bases and increasing its military presence.
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"The Russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the Western Hemisphere and they're looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation, sell equipment, air bases, as well as intelligence gathering facilities," Clapper said.
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The only majority-Muslim member of NATO, Turkey has lent its soil to U.S. air bases and supported American military operations in key conflicts, such as Syria today and the Balkans in the 1990s.
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Responding to a question whether Qatar&aposs air bases could be used to launch airstrikes on Iran, al-Attiyah said that his country was not a "fan of war" and supported engagement and dialogue.
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A similar assessment regarding Syria's actions was delivered by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, which said pro-Syrian government forces were emptying main airports and military air bases.
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For example, he said, he blamed a dismissive approach to negotiations with President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines for America's loss of access to important naval and air bases there in the early 1990s.
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Here and at other remote sites in western China, the PLA has been blasting missiles at what appear to be simulated targets of air bases, fuel depots, ports, ships, communication hubs, radar arrays and buildings.
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After Trump's tweet, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights - a British-based war monitor with a network of sources on the ground - reported that pro-government forces were emptying main airports and military air bases.
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By 6900, a Ford-funded study had identified three former U.S. air bases at Phu Cat, Danang, and Bien Hoa as the places where residual dioxin was most concentrated and likely to cause continuing harm.
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But the military has more than a dozen air bases right on the coast in storm-prone southern states, where scientists predict that hurricanes will grow more intense and more frequent because of global warming.
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SEOUL, Jan 8 (Reuters) - South Korea on Wednesday said it was bracing for more market volatility after its currency and shares fell following Iran's rocket attack on U.S.-Iraqi air bases earlier in the morning.
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" Iran responded to the attack on Soleimani Tuesday night, striking Iraqi air bases housing US troops, but in an address to the nation Wednesday morning, Trump said he believes Iran "appears to be standing down.
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"Among other things, they would be the last line of defense against cruise missiles launched by the United States or others" against air bases that may soon go into operation on the islands, it said.
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In the event of war, North Korean plans are thought to call for nuclear attacks against major ports and air bases in South Korea and Japan, halting any American invasion before it could fully begin.
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" The then-Air Force secretary, Heather Wilson, declared "that 2100 projects — consisting largely of operations and maintenance — at air bases in 18 states would not happen if the supplemental disaster funding does not come through.
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Woody Island, China's military and administrative headquarters in the South China Sea, saw two first-time air deployments "that hint at things to come at the three Spratly Island air bases farther south," the report said.
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An air strike warning system run by the Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue service in opposition areas, was by Wednesday afternoon sending alerts every few minutes, triggered when warplanes are spotted taking off from air bases.
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Just last month, the Islamic State used drones to attack Russian air bases in Syria, a tactic the group has refined from its first use more than a year ago against Iraqi forces advancing on Mosul.
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The U.S. last year clinched a much-touted agreement with Turkey to use the air base in its operations against ISIS, since it is closer to the fight than other U.S. air bases in the region.
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Unsinkable air bases The Chinese navy possesses one small aircraft carrier for training and experimentation and is building at least one more flattop to begin building a carrier-centric fleet similar to the US Navy's own fleet.
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Having seized a string of key oil ports and southern air bases since last year, Haftar has made little secret of ambitions to enter Tripoli, where he portrays his rivals as beholden to Islamists and militia rule.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived at the White House late on Tuesday after Iran fired missiles on at least two Iraqi air bases hosting U.S.-led coalition forces.
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It allowed the U.S. – its NATO ally – to use air bases in the south of the country to launch raids on ISIS, and carried out strikes in Syria itself, before eventually joining the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition.
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"All four of these attacks were in areas where opposition or ISIS forces were launching an offensive that threatened government military air bases," Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth told a news conference at the United Nations.
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If the US air bases can be taken out, the US' technologically superior F-35 and F-33 stealth fighters, and its B-1 and B-52 heavy bombers would be low on options to rearm and refuel.
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The lower altitude flight of the North Korean missiles, coupled with demonstrations of maneuverability in the final flight phase, highlight the potential value of these systems to target air bases in South Korea, potentially countering missile defense systems.
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"The latest rocket attacks on air bases in Iraq used by U.S. and coalition forces, among them European forces, are yet another example of escalation and increased confrontation," said the European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell Fontelles.
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And in any kind of crisis, the nation's first resort is often to call on the military's capabilities and resources, as it did when infected Americans evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan were quarantined on two air bases.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived at the White House late on Tuesday after Iran fired missiles on at least two Iraqi air bases hosting U.S.-led coalition forces.
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"They can bomb anyone landing on one of Japan's main islands... but they can't strike Chinese or North Korean air bases or missile sites," said Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center.
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U.S. ships and planes will have longer time to patrol the disputed sea because they were given access to Philippine naval and air bases under a new military deal, which the Supreme Court allowed in a decision made on Tuesday.
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The United States just completed a five-year, $110 million program that cleaned soil contaminated by Agent Orange at Danang International Airport, which was one of the main air bases used for storing and spraying the herbicide between 1961 and 1971.
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The U.S. Treasury said Minerven - the abbreviated name for Compania General de Mineria de Venezuela - bought gold from miners and converted it to bars, after which it was transported by the military to air bases and stored at the central bank.
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"They can bomb anyone landing on one of Japan's main islands ... but they can't strike Chinese or North Korean air bases or missile sites," said Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center.
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"They can bomb anyone landing on one of Japan's main islands... but they can't strike Chinese or North Korean air bases or missile sites," Schuster says, pointing out that Japanese warplanes don't carry the equipment necessary to suppress enemy air defenses.
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If, as reported, they can launch nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, this would give Israel a "second-strike" capability, allowing it to retaliate even if an enemy were to destroy its air bases and missile silos in a nuclear "first strike".
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"Aircraft relocated from the Seen (Sayqal), Dumayr, Shayrat, and the T-4 (Tiyas) Air Bases to the Bassel al Assad International Airport in Latakia Province, the Nayrab Air Base outside Aleppo City, and the Damascus International Airport," the ISW report states.
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In 2003, a year he served as a defense lawyer at United States air bases in Turkey and Japan, he said, he took capital punishment defense training to become a "learned counsel," a specialty recognized by the American Bar Association.
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A draft agreement released by Moscow on Thursday gave Egypt only reciprocal rights to use Russian airspace or air bases, suggesting that Russia sought to obtain for free advantages for which the United States has being paying dearly for decades.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday minimized the severity of head injuries sustained by US troops during the Iranian missile strikes on two Iraqi air bases as he was pressed on why he'd claimed no troops had been injured in the attacks.
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Mr. Garamendi told reporters that health officials pushed back against allegations in the whistle-blower complaint that federal staff were not adequately trained or prepared at March Air Reserve Base in California, one of two air bases named in the complaint.
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An overwhelming majority of voters support President Donald Trump's decision to not pursue military action against Iran last week after Tehran launched a missile strike targeting two air bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to improve and expand its naval and air bases in Syria, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed source, as Moscow cements its presence in the Middle Eastern country, its only overseas military deployment.
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Israeli media ran satellite images and a map of five Syrian air bases allegedly used to field Iranian drones or cargo aircraft, as well as the names of three senior IRGC officers suspected of commanding related projects, such as missile units.
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PATHANKOT/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A rapprochement effort between India and Pakistan appeared to be in jeopardy on Monday, as Indian security forces battled for the third day to clear out militants who attacked one of its air bases and killed seven soldiers.
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According to U.S. and other Western estimates, China has about 2,23 conventional missiles that would fall within the terms of the INF missile treaty - enough to launch saturation attacks on air bases, ports or critical infrastructure in Japan, South Korea or Taiwan.
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The answer — which the Air Force calls Agile Combat Employment — calls for the service to be able to launch, recover and maintain planes away from its main air bases and instead at unorthodox locations like partner nations' military airfields or civilian airports.
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The Israeli military described in detail events leading up to the night of Sept 5-6, 2007, in which, it said, eight warplanes, F-16s and F-20103s, carried out the mission after taking off from the Ramon and Hatzerim air bases.
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Kakaes attributed this difference, in part, to job satisfaction, telling CNN that army drone pilots were "more likely to be forward deployed which makes the job more interesting than commuting" to domestic air bases, thereby reducing the gap between drone and conventional personnel.
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MOSCOW, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Russia has launched its first attacks on militant targets in Syria involving warplanes from both Russian and Syrian air bases as well as from a Russian aircraft carrier, the defence ministry said on Thursday quoted by Russian news agencies.
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The US would likely move additional aircraft to the region in the event of an imminent strike, but also maintains two major air bases in South Korea -- Osan with F-2000 fighters and A-10 "tank killers," and Kunsan with F-16s.
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U.S. ships and planes will have longer time to patrol the disputed sea because they were given access to Philippine naval and air bases under a new military deal, which the Philippine Supreme Court allowed on Tuesday, called the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement.
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It wasn't lost on anyone that the extension meant Israeli Air Force pilots could use the F-35 to fly from Israel to Tehran and back without detection -- and without having to refuel at U.S. air bases in Saudi Arabia or Iraq.
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"If you think about the conflicts we fought since the end of the Cold War going back to Desert Storm, we have not worried about missiles landing on our air bases … So that creates serious problems for U.S. military planners," Ochmanek said.
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These include Iran's desire to create a land bridge connecting Iran and Lebanon through Iraq and Syria, deploy 10,000 Shia militia in southern Syria, create maritime and air bases and weapons factories, and even to create a presence adjacent to the Golan Heights.
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The rally comes after days of escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, which appeared to ease on Wednesday after Trump announced that Tehran was "standing down" following its missile strike on air bases in Iraq housing U.S. and coalition forces on Tuesday.
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And yet firing missiles at half-empty air bases does not make up for a lack of foreign policy acumen, let alone a strategy for dealing with a Middle East that has consumed American blood and treasure for at least 15 years.
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DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar will expand two air bases including Udeid, which hosts the largest U.S. military facility in the Middle East, a senior military official said on Monday amid a year-long dispute between the tiny Gulf Arab state and its neighbors.
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The helicopter was heading back for an air bases along the western coast of Syria, where Russia has based dozens of fighter-bomber jets and helicopters it has been using to back up government forces, by bombing rebel groups and the islamic State group's territory.
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Despite being a NATO member, and despite the evident nastiness of Islamic State, it did not let the American-led coalition fighting IS use its air bases, or even its air space, until about nine months after air strikes against IS began in September 2014.
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ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's immediate ouster on Friday, voicing support for a U.S. missile strike on one of his air bases and saying the creation of safe zones to protect civilians was now more important than ever.
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Among them are weapons storehouses for Iran and Hezbollah; convoys carrying arms from Iran to Syria and Hezbollah; bases for Shiite militias from Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps; and Syrian air bases used to house Iranian aerial vehicles.
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The draft text, seen by Reuters, says Syria's government must provide an international investigation with flight plans and logs for Tuesday, the names of all helicopter squadron commanders and provide access to air bases where investigators believe attacks using chemicals may have been launched.
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President Donald Trump sought to cool the escalating crisis with Iran in a White House address on Wednesday — opting to announce new sanctions rather than military retaliation against Tehran for launching a missile strike hours earlier against air bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops.
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Still, Kim's army has spent scarce resources to renovate cracked runways at its air bases, invest in island defense units across North Korea's rocky coast, and introduce new tank-training areas, according to satellite imagery analysis by Curtis Melvin at Johns Hopkins University in Washington.
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The alleged al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) members, who include three commanders, are accused of involvement in major attacks on two Pakistani air bases, the Karachi airport, several regional intelligence headquarters, and on police installations between 1003 and 2015, the military said.
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The alleged al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) members, who include three commanders, are accused of involvement in major attacks on two Pakistani air bases, the Karachi airport, several regional intelligence headquarters, and on police installations between 2009 and 2015, the military said.
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The bomber made rounds to "familiarize aircrew with air bases and operations in different geographic combatant commands, enabling them to maintain a high state of readiness and proficiency" and meant to show the "commitment to our allies and enhancing regional security," according to a U.S. military statement.
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Recapturing and securing al-Qayyarah -- one of the biggest air bases in Iraq -- is seen as a breakthrough in the mission to liberate Mosul, as the base can be used by the army and the U.S.-led international coalition in further missions against ISIS in the region.
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When, in an about-turn in July 2015, Turkey granted the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State access to its southern air bases and launched air strikes on Islamic State itself, it faced criticism — mainly from the West and Kurds — that it was too little, too late.
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As of the end of the 2019 fiscal year, the Air Force had seen delivery of 18 aircraft to air bases, with one more completed and awaiting delivery—making the total quantity one greater than what Boeing was supposed to deliver in 2017 under the contract.
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China has built the world's largest navy and an archipelago of air bases on artificial islands in the South China Sea, and it has tried to promote its combination of single-party authoritarianism and state-led economic growth as a global alternative to democracy and free markets.
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A limited military intervention could include actions such as shooting down Syrian planes or striking regime air bases, but the White House has been reluctant to consider such measures, which risk a military confrontation in which Moscow shoots down US planes or draws in Iran to the fight.
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The recapture of Qarayyah, one of the biggest air bases in the country, is seen as a breakthrough in the mission to liberate Mosul, and comes just weeks after Iraq declared it had regained full control of Falluja, ISIS' main stronghold, as the militant group continues to lose ground.
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Under the current Enhanced Cooperation Agreement between the U.S. and the Philippines, Manila allows American forces to access five of its air bases, including the Antonio Bautista base off the Spratly Islands and the Basa base near the Scarborough Shoal — both are disputed areas claimed by Beijing and Manila.
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Nasr Salem, a retired military officer who worked on weapons procurement, in his living room shortly after reports of a preliminary agreement for Russian use of Egyptian air bases, which had been portrayed in the Western media as a sign that Egypt was snubbing Washington in favor of Moscow.
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Jubeir told Reuters after a separate event that he did not expect the decision to harm the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State, even though Qatar is home to the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, since strikes against the group were continuing from other air bases.
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A source briefed on the latest intelligence told CNN that before the strike, specific information showed Iranian surface to air missiles and other military weaponry that the US had been watching, were moving in on at least two US air bases, as well as US embassies in the region.
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With respect to the Syrian Kurds, who have been fighting for their survival against ISIS' onslaught and for the recognition of their cultural and political identity by Damascus, Trump's new proclamation means they will be left alone with only a vague promise of U.S. air support from air bases outside Syria.
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The U.S., France, and Britain have proposed a draft resolution to be heard at an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council Wednesday, which would demand Syria provide an international team of investigators with flight logs for Tuesday and access to air bases where the attacks could have been launched.
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The neon sign was the paragraph that required Syria to submit flight plans and flight logs filed on April 4, 2017; names of all individuals in command of any helicopter squadrons; and to provide access to relevant air bases from which attacks involving chemicals as weapons may have been launched.
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Anybody old enough to remember the Cold War, when Alaska was for decades at the front lines of national defense with an array of listening posts and ready-to-scramble air bases just across the Arctic Circle from the Soviets, also already knows the feeling of being a hot nuclear target.
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This, in turn, has secured Russia's Syrian bases — which now include both a port and air bases — given it access to a number of commercial interests in the country, enhanced the global perception of its military prowess and paved the way for it to grab a larger diplomatic role in the region.
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"We must end the page of the so-called international coalition, which controls the Iraqi airspace, under the pretext of tracking terrorist cells, which made the Iraqi aviation authorities do not know the entry of aircraft into our international airspace and Iraqi air bases, that American soldiers located in some of them," Zamili said.
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Essentially, the J-20 will give the Chinese air force a long-range, hard-to-detect strike and interdiction fighter that can threaten the air bases, carriers, airborne warning and control systems, and refueling aircraft that the United States and its allies rely on to project air power over the vast distances of the Asia-Pacific.
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These rocket strikes follow a string of attacks on Iraqi bases hosting U.S. troops, including Thursday when a mortar shell exploded at the K1 Iraqi military base in the Kirkuk province, according to the AP. Iran launched a missile at one of Iraq's air bases last month as retaliation for the U.S. strike that killed Iranian Gen.
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In recent days, after Trump ordered the killing of Iran military leader Qassem Soleimani and Tehran retaliated with a missile strike against air bases housing U.S. troops, the campaign sent out fundraising texts and emails, released two new videos, began airing hundreds of ads on Facebook and spread the president's message to millions on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
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Without the hangars in working order, and with much of the base's personnel displaced, Tyndall's role as a critical training hub for pilots the US needs for air-to-air battles and protecting high-value air assets can't continue there, though part of Tyndall's functions could most likely be taken on by nearby Eglin or other air bases.
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Tanf is the only position with a significant U.S. military presence in Syria outside the Kurdish-controlled north, where it has much larger air bases Only several months ago, U.S. marines held major rare exercises in the base in what Western military officials said was a strong message to Russia and Iran that the Americans and the rebels it supports intend to stay.
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Tanf is the only position with a significant U.S. military presence in Syria outside the Kurdish-controlled north, where it has much larger air bases Only several months ago, U.S. marines held major rare exercises in the base in what Western military officials said was a strong message to Russia and Iran that the Americans and the rebels it supports intend to stay.
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Israeli defense officials let it be known that if the Iranians strike back, Israel may use the opportunity to mount a massive counterstrike on Iran's entire military infrastructure in Syria, where Iran is attempting to establish forward air bases and factories for GPS-guided missiles that could hit targets inside Israel with much greater accuracy — inside a 50-meter radius.
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One, how does Trump's America see its national security interests in Asia—a question which in June 2017 essentially involves ranking two issues: the urgent threat of North Korea developing a nuclear missile capable of hitting America versus the long-term challenge of a China seemingly intent on becoming a regional hegemon, including by building air bases on contested reefs in the South China Sea?
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WASHINGTON — As the US Air Force prepares for the possibility of a future conflict with a near-peer adversary, it has run into a massive logistical problem: In a time where Russia and China are investing in layers of air- and ground-launched missiles that threaten American air bases, how can the Air Force ensure it will be able to get its planes off the ground?
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Thomas L. Friedman I'm just back from visiting all of our key air bases in Iraq, Afghanistan and along the Persian Gulf, and I find myself wrestling with two stark contrasts: the contrast between what is happening there in the air and what is happening on the ground, and the contrast between the decency of the U.S. military personnel fighting this war and how unworthy Donald Trump — who has become our divider in chief — is to be their commander in chief.
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Where U.S. troops are located: Oman: Port of Salalah and Port of Duqm Turkey: Izmir and Incirlik Air Bases United Arab Emirates: Al Dhafra Air Base, Port of Jebel Ali and Fujairah Naval Base Kuwait: Camp Buehring, Ali al-Salem Air Base, Camp Arifjan, Camp Patriot and Shaykh Ahmad al-Jabir Air Base Bahrain: Naval Support-Bahrain, Shaykh Isa Air Base and Khalifa Ibn Salman Port Qatar: Al Udeid Air Base and Camp As Sayliyah Yes, but: There are other U.S. bases in the region, but the locations aren't disclosed for security purposes.
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