{"id":336034,"date":"2026-09-28T01:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/5-arrested-on-suspicion-of-terrorism-near-raf-fairford-air-base-in-uk.html"},"modified":"2026-09-28T01:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:33:20","slug":"5-arrested-on-suspicion-of-terrorism-near-raf-fairford-air-base-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/5-arrested-on-suspicion-of-terrorism-near-raf-fairford-air-base-in-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"5 Arrested on Suspicion of Terrorism Near RAF Fairford Air Base in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">The British police arrested five men on Sunday on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism after receiving a call around 1 a.m. about three suspicious vehicles headed toward an air force base used by the American military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">The base, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">R.A.F. Fairford<\/a>, is primarily used by the United States Air Force to deploy some of its largest bombers and has been at the center of controversy this year over its role in the American-Israeli war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">It is not yet clear whether Sunday\u2019s incident is connected to the conflict in the Middle East, but investigators are looking into whether there is any link to Iran or Russia. Both have been accused of orchestrating attacks on British soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">In July, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps issued a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">statement<\/a> warning the British government that a decision to allow American bombers to conduct strikes against Iran would make \u201cLondon responsible for\u201d any consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/27\/world\/europe\/raf-fairford-airbase-arrests.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British police arrested five men on Sunday on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism after receiving a call around 1 a.m. about three suspicious vehicles headed toward an air force base used by the American military. The base, R.A.F. Fairford, is primarily used by the United States Air Force to deploy some of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-336034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}