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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 ↗Counter-terrorism police arrest 25-year-old in Westminster and search two properties in central London
Counterterrorism police found gasoline but no explosives in three vans near the base. Now a dual British-Iranian national is in custody.
A 27-year-old British-Iranian man has been arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts in the RAF Fairford investigation as police examine possible foreign-state involvement.