The quickly spreading wildfire that jumped from Idaho to Nevada Sunday also reportedly threatened to spread onto the pilot training range used by Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. Several fires raging throughout Idaho, at last report, had consumed some 770,000 acres. Mountain Home firefighters had battled other lightning-induced wildfires earlier this month.
The U.S. thwarted a drone attack on U.S. forces at Al Asad air base in western Iraq on April 22, marking the first time that American troops have been targeted since February, U.S. officials said. “We can confirm it was an attack on Al Asad,” a defense official told Air & Space…