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paragraph_text: Wadi Seidna Air Base (ICAO: HSWS) (Arabic: قاعدة وادي سيّدنا, romanized: wadi sayyidna) is a military airport 22 kilometres (14 mi) north of Khartoum in Sudan.
  
  After the Sudan conflict began, the French Special Forces, the U.K. Royal Air Force, the German Luftwaffe, the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the Spanish Air and Space Force began evacuating civilians through the airbase.