
(FILES) Military personnel of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division leave a helicopter during a demonstration drill at Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase near Constanta, Romania on July 30, 2022. Romania decided on March 11, 2026 to let the United States use air bases in the eastern European country to refuel aircraft involved in the US-Israeli war on Iran, the country's president said. The United States would be able to use the Mihail Kogalniceanu base near Constanta and Campia Turzii in central Romania for an initial 90 days, an official source told AFP. An extra 400 US troops will be deployed at each of the two bases. After Washington decided in October to withdraw some troops from the country, some 1,000 US military personnel remained, 800 at the MK base. (Photo by Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP via Getty Images)

