US withdraws all bomber aircraft from UK airbase

Police were called to the base in southwest England on September 27 after a local farmer reported a group of men with several vans engaged in "suspicious" activity.

The scare prompted a counter-terrorism probe and forced evacuations at 85 homes near the airbase, which was used by the United States to launch strikes on Iran.

Investigators did not find any explosives in the vans, but "a quantity of petrol was recovered," according to counter-terrorism police.

A statement from a Pentagon official on Sunday said "we can acknowledge now that all US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States."

The statement noted that "operational security precluded us from confirming the movement of our assets and forces in real-time."

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday expressed "confidence in the security of all of our bases."

Source: Citizen Digital