An Iraqi F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft, assigned to the 9th Fighter Squadron, takes off prior to performing a Close Air Support Mission at Balad Air Base, Iraq, on June 17, 2019.

V2X has secured a cost-plus-fixed-fee, undefinitized contract action from the U.S. Air Force to support the Iraq F-16 program ...

Security measures have been increased at Balad Air Base in Iraq, which houses U.S. Air Force trainers and associated U.S. contractors, following a mortar attack last week.

It used to be Saddam's own Air Force Academy, if you will, and the training camp for his Olympic Team. It's another interesting side to Life at War. Capt. Chris Vasquez/ 388th Fighter Pilot: "The ...

Balad base hosts U.S. forces and contractors and is located about 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Baghdad. Two mortars landed inside Iraq's Balad air base on Thursday, two Iraqi military sources ...

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq—Pilots are only the most visible tip of the 122nd Fighter Wing, which landed in Iraq in January for a 45-day deployment that ended last week.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — At least three rockets targeted Iraq's Balad Air Base, located north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, on Monday night, according to state media.

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- The concrete goes on forever, vanishing into the noonday glare, 2 million cubic feet of it, a mile-long slab that's now the home of up to 120 U.S. helicopters, a "heli-park ...

Balad base hosts U.S. forces and contractors and is located about 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Baghdad. Two mortars landed inside Iraq's Balad air base on Thursday, two Iraqi military sources ...