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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.
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The events at RAF Fairford in the English countryside have brought war close to home, while raising concerns about the future of the U.S. there.
Iran is trying to hit military sites in Britain and the suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run military air base in September is "not unique," the head of the MI5 spy agency said Tuesday, as he warned that both Tehran and Moscow are expanding their attacks against the U.K.
Al Jazeera foregrounds Iran’s “false flag” rebuttal while AP and ABC repeat MI5 and UK attribution of the plot to IRGC.