The first US military base in Israel, opened
In southern Israel on Monday opened the first permanent U.S. base. As the press service of the Israeli army, it will serve American soldiers and officers.
“For the first time in the history of the state of Israel, the Israel defense forces, we have created a permanent US military base, over which flies the American flag,” — said at the opening ceremony, the commander of the defense forces of Israel Zvi Haimovich.
It is reported that the American base is integrated into the location of one of the Israeli air defense units.
U.S. representative major General John Gronski said that the military of the two countries now “will be side by side to live and to serve”.
Earlier it was reported that the militants organization “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia) attacked a us base near the village of al-Karaj in Iraq. As a result of attack nobody suffered.