Militarily, Turkey has NATO's biggest army after America's, and hosts a large American airbase at Incirlik.
The next day, during an unsuccessful rescue at a NATO airbase, the other nine were killed.
And this year Kyrgyzstan's government has threatened to block NATO's access to its Manas airbase.
Earlier, rebels and government forces reportedly clashed near Aleppo as they fought for control of a military airbase.
Major Alistair Stocker told the inquest the airbase at Basra was "like a small city" and very busy.
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Two deaths at Bagram airbase were ruled as homicides by US military doctors.
France has its eye on the nearby military airbase, a highly strategic facility which it built in the 1950s.
There, a U.S. C-9 transport would pick the three up and transfer them to the American airbase in Ramstein, Germany.
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Seven crew members died when a US civilian Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on Monday.
An Angus airfield is marking 100 years after becoming the first military airbase to be established in the United Kingdom.
The history of an RAF airbase whose pilots fought battles across the world is being charted in a new exhibition.
On the other hand, our big airbase in southeastern Turkey, Incirlik, is the key staging area for logistics in northern Iraq.
It was to end at an American airbase in Dayton, Ohio, where the Bosnian peace deal was concluded in November 1995.
Montrose airbase, which now houses the museum, tells the story of how the Angus town became a part of military history.
The defendants listen through headphones to an Arabic translation of proceedings at the specially-built Scottish court at a disused US airbase.
The RAF has provided air traffic control support for Newquay airport until now because the RAF St Mawgan airbase is next door.
There are 16 buildings on the airbase, including former radar rooms, tennis and squash courts, station headquarters and the old officers' mess.
Sgt Shalit was later taken to Tel Nof airbase, where he met his family, and was passed fit by Israeli army doctors.
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The plane came down shortly after take-off and crashed within the boundaries of the huge US-run airbase, said a Nato spokesperson at the base.
Our force operated in the night, so I typically woke in the late morning, and did an hour-long run along the runways at Balad Airbase.
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The helicopters lift off from the Kandahar airbase and head to Zargaran, stopping halfway, where more choppers carrying regular Afghan army soldiers join the operation.
Mr White, who was hired to help guard Shindand airbase in the western Afghan province of Herat, was killed in 2007 by a rival Afghan security contractor.
The exhibition, which also includes video and audio interviews, looks at the different jobs at the airbase, the living conditions and how people spent their leisure time.
The group outside West Sussex council offices in Crawley want the government to let them return to Diego Garcia, which became a US airbase in the 1970s.
Representing traditional LDP thinking, Morimoto is known as a strong backer of the U.S.-Japan defense alliance and supports keeping U.S. Marines in Okinawa at a relocated Futenma airbase.
The exhibition, which will open at the airbase on 28 March, tells the stories of people who lived and worked there during World War II and the Cold War.
The four-engine jet left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, but was grounded at the Evreux-Fauville airbase until Tuesday to allow the "minor technical fault" to be fixed.
Families were exiled from Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands, in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US Indian Ocean airbase, and had to leave for Mauritius.
The first of the two C17s left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday and was loaded with French armoured vehicles and other equipment at the Evreux airbase in Normandy overnight.
To take one example, a kilometre from the Bagram airbase, and just off the main road, a crowd gathered recently as the bodies of three Afghan soldiers were carefully dragged clear.
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