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The US has flown over 300 cargo flights of massive C-17 and C-5 strategic airlifters to the Middle East

For anyone who hasn't seen this, these flights are mostly visible on ADSB tracking sites. For at least the past 3 weeks there has been an endless train of flights up the east coast, across the Atlantic and into Europe. Most of these land in Germany, some in the UK. The second leg of the journey is south and east across Europe, with the ADSB signal turning off around Turkey or the Aegean Sea. The return flights take roughly the same path.

Occasionally someone leaves their ADSB on too long, the ultimate destinations appear to be in Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and possibly Iraq. Two AWACS planes went over a while back and at least one has resurfaced in Turkey.

The UK has their own flights going in and out of Cyprus. Some additional smaller amount US activity seems to be around the mouth of the Mediterranean in Spain.