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ABC News,
1 June 2026
Several Americans were hurt in a missile attack on a Kuwaiti air base over the past day as a White House meeting to discuss extending the ceasefire with Iran ended without conclusion.
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Kate Sullivan,
Fortune,
30 May 2026
Tiago Ventura,
Time,
6 Mar. 2026
Even so, it has been suggested that the plane was hijacked and flown to Russia, or the US airbase on the island of Diego Garcia; others have said it could have been shot down.
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The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
22 Feb. 2026
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On Monday, hundreds of youths marched to the gates of the air base, chanting anti-Ebola slogans.
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ABC News,
1 June 2026
Several Americans were hurt in a missile attack on a Kuwaiti air base over the past day as a White House meeting to discuss extending the ceasefire with Iran ended without conclusion.
—
Kate Sullivan,
Fortune,
30 May 2026
Noun
Iran’s retaliatory strikes have since targeted Gulf nations and also a British airbase in Cyprus.
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Tiago Ventura,
Time,
6 Mar. 2026
Even so, it has been suggested that the plane was hijacked and flown to Russia, or the US airbase on the island of Diego Garcia; others have said it could have been shot down.
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The Week Uk,
TheWeek,
22 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air base
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In airports, outside hotels and inside stadiums, Haitians wore their national colors and proudly waved their flags.
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Video showed people running and several areas inside the airport covered in rubble and dust, with damaged ceilings.
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Alexander the Great conquered it in 332 BCE after building a causeway to what had been considered an impregnable island fortress.
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Some, like France's Maginot Line, became border fortresses stretching for miles, while German coastal defenses sat on the cliffs of Normandy, requiring the Allies to take out with sea bombardments and direct infantry assaults.
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The two-acre facility, owned by the city and operated by Downtown Skyport, is the busiest commercial heliport in the world, hosting up to 200 flights a day.
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An example of an inherently objectionable use might be a heliport in a heavily residential municipality.
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The way the loss came about should be raising alarm bells inside the US camp.
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Across the fence of the compound is another refugee camp, and the children there are celebrating Christ’s resurrection.
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The airstrip was intended in the 1960s for a massive jetport that, with its access corridors east and west, would have trashed Florida’s greatest natural resource, the Everglades.
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Construction on a huge jetport had begun, but Stoneman Douglas and others were able to stop it after just one runway was built in the fragile wetlands.
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The story begins with the historic building designed by Edward Durrell Stone in the 1960s as the World Trade Center, with a cruciform plan that nodded to the four corners of the compass and New Orleans’ place as a center of international commerce.
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All that was missing from the game was a rusty shiv in the center circle.
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Paramedics work to transport Dawa Sherpa, who was missing for several days in the Everest region, from the helipad at HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu on June 4, 2026.
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Kent’s upcoming October tour includes a private helicopter excursion from Jakarta to the remote Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia’s Way Kambas National Park, where A&K staff will build a helipad just for the occasion.
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Warning posters frequently line train stations and public buildings in Japan.
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The Five Points station was the biggest question mark as renovations have closed all but the Forsyth Street exit, which still had the old fare gates sitting wide open the day of the first match.
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“Air base.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20base. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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