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  2. Explainer-What are US troops doing in the Middle East and ...

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    The location is just one of many bases the U.S. has in the Middle East. The U.S. has operated bases around the Middle East for decades. At its peak, there were more than 100,000 U.S. troops in ...

  3. New US forces for Middle East may aid evacuation, if needed - AOL

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    The new U.S. deployment of a small number of troops to the Middle East announced earlier this week could help the U.S. military prepare for scenarios including an evacuation of Americans from ...

  4. United States foreign policy in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Marines on guard duty in April 2003 near a burning oil well in the Rumaila oil field of Basra, Iraq, following the 2003 U.S. invasion and during the Iraq War.. United States foreign policy in the Middle East has its roots in the early 19th-century Tripolitan War that occurred shortly after the 1776 establishment of the United States as an independent sovereign state, but became much more ...

  5. US troops deployed to Cyprus as fears of wider Middle East ...

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    September 25, 2024 at 11:38 AM. ideeone/E+/Getty Images. Dozens of US troops have been deployed to Cyprus amid sharply escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, and they are preparing for ...

  6. Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria during the ...

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    On 21 April 2024, five rockets were fired from Zummar, Iraq towards the Kharab al-Jir base in Syria which houses US and coalition soldiers in the first major attack since early February. No US personnel were injured. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights blamed the attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.

  7. Israel–United States military relations - Wikipedia

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    Military relations between Israel and the United States have been extremely close, [1] reflecting shared security interests in the Middle East. [2][3] Israel is designated as a major non-NATO ally by the U.S. government. A major purchaser and user of U.S. military equipment, Israel is also involved in the joint development of military ...

  8. US sends additional forces to Middle East as tensions soar ...

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    The United States is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East given escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, the Pentagon said on Monday, declining to ...

  9. US intervention in the Syrian civil war - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after the civil war broke out in 2011, the US initially supplied the rebels of the Free Syrian Army with non-lethal aid (e.g., food rations and pickup trucks), but quickly began providing training, money, and intelligence to selected Syrian rebel commanders.