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Theater-level Unified Combatant Command of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the broader Middle East
As of the USNI Fleet and Marine Tracker snapshot on Jan. 5, 2026, none of the U.S. Navy’s 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were shown operating inside the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of responsibility, ...
Camp Humphreys (South Korea) is identified in multiple sources as the largest U.S. overseas base by area and a leading candidate by population; figures cited include tens of thousands of personnel and...
The U.S. has approved construction of a Qatari Emiri Air Force training facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho — but reporting repeatedly states this is a facility hosted inside a U.S. base...
Airwars and contemporaneous news reporting show U.S. declared airstrikes fell sharply after 2020: declared strikes across major theaters dropped from about 951 in 2020 to roughly 439 by mid‑December 2...
Multiple international actors and bodies have been cited in reporting about alleged diversion or theft of humanitarian aid in Gaza — but their statements diverge. A U.S. military release and U.S. offi...
In 2025 the U.S. Navy rotated multiple carrier strike groups into the Middle East to deter Iranian escalation, counter Houthi attacks on shipping, and conduct targeted strikes against extremist groups...
As of the documents provided, ; they instead describe regional deployments, the presence of the Al Udeid base, and a new Qatari training facility in Idaho. The available pieces emphasize broader troop...
No credible evidence shows the United States is “building a base Qatar in the US” — the reporting available describes U.S. projects and expanded force posture in itself, not construction of a Qatari b...
The available reporting shows a recent, explicit U.S. announcement permitting Qatar to station and train its air force at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, a development framed as creating a perm...
The Al Udeid Air Base is the central linchpin of US-Qatar military relations, serving as the largest American base in the Middle East and the focal point for expanded defence cooperation talks followi...
The United States vacated Bagram Air Base in the night of 1–2 July 2021 and formally turned control to Afghan authorities on 2 July 2021, part of the U.S. drawdown that culminated in full troop withdr...
When U.S. forces left Bagram Airfield in July/August 2021 they abandoned a large volume of material — Central Command reported roughly 17,000 pieces of equipment left in place, while Afghan officials ...
The compiled sources establish a steady expansion of formal military agreements and deepening defense cooperation between the United States and Qatar from the 1990s through 2025, anchored by long-term...
The available reporting sketches a compressed late-October 2025 arc of stepped-up U.S. involvement around the Gaza hostage crisis: Washington opened a Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Is...
The claim asks for a concrete count of ; none of the provided sources contain that figure or the underlying dataset needed to verify it. The available analyses instead document reporting on Israeli st...
Reliable, published counts of U.S. bombs dropped from 2017–2021 exist but come in two classes: official Airpower Summaries and CENTCOM/USAF releases (the basis for many aggregate tallies), and indepen...
A review of contemporary reporting and analyses that catalog U.S. kinetic activity under President Barack Obama (2009–2017) shows that airstrikes or bombings were carried out in at least seven countri...
The U.S. vacated Bagram Air Base in early July 2021—U.S. forces left the sprawling complex overnight on 1–2 July and turned control to Afghan forces by 2 July—part of a wider U.S. withdrawal from Afgh...
As of 2025 the principal legal and political basis the United States cites for its ongoing military activity in Syria is continuity with the U.S.-led Operation Inherent Resolve (the anti‑IS coalition)...
Available reporting shows multiple official inquiries into incidents tied to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s unit — including a completed Pentagon inspector general review of his Signal messages and ...