US withdraws all bomber aircraft from UK airbase used during Iran war

The United States confirmed that it had withdrawn all B-1 bombers from the British airbase of RAF Fairford, reportedly due to “new threats”, with Britain’s government insisting on Monday that the site is safe. Police were called to the base in southwest England on Sept 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 US to launch strikes on Iran. Investigators did not find any explosives in the vans, but “a quantity of…