Fitness app reveals Middle East bases

Strava, the popular exercise tracking app that posts a map of its users’ activity, has unwittingly revealed previously unknown locations of U.S.-led coalition military bases in Iraq, Syria and Jordan

Previously known base    Air Base  0 Newly revealed base

TURKEY
Lafarge Cement Plant
LEBANON 
ISRAEL
Raqqah
SYRIA 
Damascus
Al-Qayyarah 
K1 (Kirkuk) 
Camp Taji 
Ain al-Asad
Amman 
JORDAN
Al-Quwayrah
SAUDI ARABIA
Prince Hassan
Al-Zaqf 
Al-Tanf
12
Al-Taqaddum
IRAQ
Al-Asraq 
King Faisal
IRAN
Irbil
Balad
Baghdad
Bismayah New Al-Muthana
100km  60 miles
Strava uses cell phone’s GPS to track subscriber’s exercise activity. It has 27 million users around the world


SYRIA
1 Possible Turkish base located in northern Aleppo province
2 Base built in 2017, near 900m runway 35km north of Raqqah city

JORDAN
3 Al-Tanf: Coalition appears to be continuing to support Syrian rebels at base where UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were seen in Sep 2017
4 H4 Air Base (Al-Rukban): Coalition presence revealed at base where new area for MQ-9 Reaper drones was built in 2014
5 King Hussein Air Base (Mafraq)
6 King Abdullah II Air Base
7 8 9 Three bases in southern Jordan could be being used to train Syrian rebels, indicating expansion of programme which Washington said it had ended in July 2017

IRAQ
10 Mosul Dam
11 No name given
12 Harir Airfield
13 Al-Ramadi Army Bas

 Sources: Jane’s Defence Weekly, Strava   © GRAPHIC NEWS