{"id":331872,"date":"2026-10-09T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331872"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:34:11","slug":"irans-horrible-strikes-forced-us-troops-to-abandon-kuwait-base-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331872","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s \u2018horrible\u2019 strikes forced US troops to \u2018abandon\u2019 Kuwait base: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Damage from Iranian strike at Camp Buehring Kuwait (on file)<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PressTV \u2013 Oct 8, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s \u201chorrible\u201d retaliatory strikes during the opening days of the US-Israeli aggression forced American forces to \u201cabandon\u201d Camp Buehring, a major US military facility in Kuwait, a report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Citing newly obtained videos and witness accounts, CBS News reported on Wednesday that most of the roughly 7,000 troops stationed at the base had moved\u00a0elsewhere ahead of the war as part of what the Pentagon called &#8220;get off the X&#8221; plan.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report added, some 100 soldiers stayed there despite running critically low on .50-caliber ammunition while not equipped to handle a mass-casualty event if the attacks continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They hit us bad,&#8221; an unnamed source said. &#8220;It was horrible. There were a lot of brave guys who stayed to fight there \u2014 and people at home don&#8217;t know what happened. We had to abandon the base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2018I could see helmets of Iranian F-5 pilots\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, three US service members, who witnessed Iran\u2019s reprisal attacks, said I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.co.uk\/doc\/Detail\/2026\/04\/28\/767667\/explainer-how-irans-indigenous-fighter-breached-us-air-defenses-and-bombed-an-american-base\">ranian F-5 fighter jets<\/a> participated in operations against Camp Buehring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They (the F-5 jets) ran so close to us I could see their helmets,&#8221; they added. &#8220;They came in, they hit us, and then took off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a senior US Army official working in logistics, managing operations from another post in Kuwait, confirmed there were concerns about the availability of .50 caliber ammunition and Patriot missile batteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision ultimately was to leave. Service members packed up, loading their vehicles with whatever equipment they could and drove at night deep into the Kuwaiti desert\u201d and remained at forward operating bases, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>US officials with knowledge of the matter said no one was killed at Camp Buehring or at the forward operating bases, but several were injured, including two soldiers who were struck by lightning in desert sandstorms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Camp Buehring got demolished,&#8221; a source said. &#8220;They need to do an investigation. How come no one came to reinforce us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US and Israel launched their illegal war of aggression against Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Forty days later, on April 8, the enemies were forced to accept a ceasefire amid Iran\u2019s resistance, successful retaliatory operations, and a powerful grip on the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the US conducted waves of deadly air raids on Iran and imposed a naval blockade of the country in violation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Republic, signed on June 17, to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Iranian armed forces launched devastating strikes against strategic American targets across West Asia and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"r16mPSDMlc\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331131\">New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cNew photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks\u201d \u2014 The Truthseeker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331131&amp;embed=true#?secret=G5r7GtCxhv#?secret=r16mPSDMlc\" data-secret=\"r16mPSDMlc\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.co.uk\/Detail\/2026\/10\/08\/777866\/Iran-strikes-forced-US-troops-abandon-Kuwait-base\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening days of the war, Iranian counter strikes forced the U.S. to \u201cabandon\u201d Camp Beuhring, which had formerly housed 7,000 U.S. military personnel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":331134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331873,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331872\/revisions\/331873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}