Story preview
Topics in this story
Continue reading on the publisher site for the full article.
Read on publisher →The Insight International
News Atlas is free and independent. If it’s useful to you, you can support it with a coffee. ☕ Buy me a coffee
Coverage
Tone
Context from Wikipedia on the organisations, people and places in this story.
Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Since 2019, the base has played host to a Lockheed U-2S Dragon Lady detachment from the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. It is the USAF's only European airfield for heavy bombers and routinely supports Bomber Task Force operations. Its most prominent use in recent decades has been as an airfield for United States Air Force B-52s during the first Gulf War in 1991, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the 2003 Iraq War, and the 2026 Iran war.
More on Wikipedia ↗Outlets covering it
13
in the last 3 days
First reported
13 hr. ago
12 outlets since
Countries
12 other outlets reported this story in the last 3 days.
Police have arrested seven men in connection with the investigation. All have been released on bail, and none has been charged. Iran has denied involvement.
Britain's government Monday accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of being behind a major scare at a UK airbase used by the United States, as allies including Washington warned Tehran against hostile acts. Iran denied any involvement. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the British parliament that Iran's Islamic…
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham previously said there are strong indications Iran was linked to the apparent plan last month to attack the RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran in the ongoing war.