Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant ...

we contacted foreign embassies in the U.S. and the military’s United States Africa Command; and we conducted interviews with journalists, academics and others. We found that, contrary to what ...

Subscribe to the Daily News Brief. The United States maintains a considerable military presence in the Middle East, with forces in more than a dozen countries and on ships throughout the region ...