RAF Fairford

US Air Force personnel investigated a suspected unauthorized drone over RAF Lakenheath on 14 Nov and reported no injuries, aircraft or infrastructure were harmed. The base’s Force Protection Condition was raised to Charlie before the incident was declared resolved. In the same week, the US Justice Department charged three men described as Iranian operatives for a September terrorist plot at RAF Fairford, and UK police charged two British men with national‑security offences linked to that plot. Tehran denied any involvement.

A superseding indictment unsealed on Tuesday charges three men with supporting terrorism in nearly twenty planned attacks on Jewish sites in Europe and the United States and a foiled plot against the British air base RAF Fairford where U.S. forces are stationed. The indictment names Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al‑Saadi, a dual Iranian‑Iraqi national held in Brooklyn, Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian, and Mohammad Ali al‑Hassani, an Iraqi, and alleges they acted for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iraqi militia Kata'ib Hezbollah.

British police arrested a 41-year-old US Army soldier near Gloucester, southwest England, on suspicion of spying for Russia, police say. The suspect is held at a London police station under the National Security Act. The soldier was assigned to NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps at Imjin Barracks in Innsworth. Police are searching two locations in Gloucestershire. FBI director Kash Patel called the allegations of utmost concern to the United States and its allies. The Kremlin, through spokesman Dmitry Peskov, denied any link to the case.

The United States moved at least twelve military aircraft from RAF Mildenhall in eastern England on Monday, 9 Nov, after a threat linked to Iran was reported. About ten KC-135 Stratotanker refuelling planes went to Germany, Spain and Scotland, and three Osprey aircraft landed at RAF Lakenheath on Tuesday. RAF Mildenhall has raised its alert level to FPCON Charlie. A US official called the moves proactive, while US officials are still discussing the nature of the threat.

Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim and Nouman Essghir, both 24, are scheduled to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later on Tuesday after being charged under Britain’s National Security Act for alleged security offences linked to a suspected Iranian intelligence operation at RAF Fairford. Police say Abdulkarim is accused of assisting a foreign intelligence service believed to be Iran, while Essghir faces a charge of entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK. The United States withdrew all its B‑1 bombers from the base days after the September 27 incident.