US Air Force evacuates aircraft from RAF Mildenhall in England over a reported Iran threat

Summary

The U.S. Air Force has evacuated aircraft from a base in eastern England because of a threat, an American official says, ABC News, the LA Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Tuesday 10 November. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the evacuation, said that the threat related to Iran, citing 'people familiar with the matter', according to the LA Times, the Inquirer writing that the Journal reported the evacuation of air refueling tankers. Bloomberg wrote that the US evacuated aircraft from a second UK military base in response to ongoing threats from Iran, a month after its bombers left another English airbase in the wake of an alleged terror plot. The U.S. military aircraft were removed on Monday from the RAF Mildenhall air base amid vague reports of an Iranian threat, the CS Monitor reported, recalling that in early October the arrest of five men outside the RAF Fairford air base spurred the relocation of U.S. bombers.

Latest: The U.S. Air Force has evacuated aircraft from a base in eastern England because of a threat, an American official says, ABC News and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, the LA Times writing that The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the evacuation, said that the threat related to Iran, while Bloomberg wrote that the US evacuated aircraft from a second UK military base, a month after its bombers left another English airbase in the wake of an alleged terror plot, and the CS Monitor that the aircraft were removed on Monday from the RAF Mildenhall air base.

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