800 US Soldiers Return Home from Middle East

U.S. troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division arrive at Green Ramp for a deployment to the Middle East in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Jan. 4, 2020. Andrew Craft/Getty Images

Soldiers are returning home after about 3,000 troops from a U.S. Army rapid-response force were deployed to the Middle East nearly two months ago amid tensions with Iran.

Nearly 800 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force Brigade began returning from the Middle East on Thursday to Fort Bragg in North Carolina.