{"id":224401,"date":"2026-05-07T23:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224401"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:54:28","slug":"as-american-bombers-take-off-from-r-a-f-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224401","title":{"rendered":"As American Bombers Take Off From R.A.F. Fairford in UK, Iraq War Looms Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R.A.F. Fairford was the site of repeated antiwar protests during the Iraq war in 2003. Now it is being used again as a base for U.S. bombing missions in the Middle East&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/17\/world\/europe\/iran-uk-raf-fairford-starmer-trump.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.A.F. Fairford was the site of repeated antiwar protests during the Iraq war in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large.jpg",1800,1800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large-1024x1024.jpg",640,640,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large-1536x1536.jpg",1536,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large.jpg",1800,1800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224401-as-american-bombers-take-off-from-raf-fairford-in-uk-iraq-war-looms-large-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}