Sputnik News — July 12, 2018
Cargo City, artist’s conception from a YouTube video. Click to enlarge
The US Air Force is on the verge of completing construction of yet another military logistics facility in the Middle East, dubbed appropriately “Cargo City.” The airfield will support the US’ military operations in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, the goals and end dates of which remain elusive.
Adjacent to Kuwait International Airport, US crews have dug through Kuwaiti soil to install new communications cables and antenna systems that will enable both the US and Kuwaiti air forces to operate out of Cargo City, which will be the main aerial debarkation point in the Middle East, the US Air Force’s 386th Expeditionary Wing announced in a July 5 news release.
The construction of the $32 million logistics hub has taken place during a time of “massive expansion” at Kuwait International Airport, the release notes.
Still, the service plans for the airfield to be its major Middle East logistics hub for transporting supplies, personnel and equipment to and from regional military theaters only until 2023, at which point the service says it will shift to the West Al-Mubarak Air Base, also part of the Kuwait International Airport complex, as its primary operating location.
“We wanted to go into this project with the clear intentions of building not just an operating location, but a lasting partnership,” Captain Sean Murphy of the 387th Expeditionary Support Squadron said. Murphy is in charge of the civil engineering projects taking place near the Kuwaiti airport, according to the release.
When Murphy and his team arrived, “the entire site was pretty much a 10-foot deep hole and needed to be filled in and graded properly,” the captain said, “which is a huge project in itself.”
Twenty-four hours a day for four months straight, a local trucking firm shuttled in 400 truckloads of soil, dirt and rock. After the site was prepared, the crew had to make the site move-in ready within three months, according to the US Air Force. Further construction of the aircraft parking ramp and a place for aircraft to taxi is slated to wrap up later this fall.
IRGC says it struck US military logistics hub in Kuwait
Iran International – July 15, 2026
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday it set fire to and destroyed what it described as the US military’s main logistics and support hub in West Asia at Mina Abdullah, Kuwait.The statement, carried by IRGC-affiliated Fars News, said the strike was carried out during the fourth wave of the IRGC’s “Nasr 2” operation. It added that retaliatory operations against US forces would continue and that “the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until what it described as US hostilities end.”