US EditionA look at the US military assets heading to the Middle East
The USS Abraham Lincoln strike group adds 5,700 troops to U.S. forces in the Middle East amid Iran’s crackdown killing over 5,000 protesters, officials say.
- On Friday, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying destroyers left the South China Sea and were in the Indian Ocean, set to join three littoral combat ships in Bahrain and two U.S. Navy destroyers in the Persian Gulf.
- The Pentagon sent assets this week as President Donald Trump kept military options open, while Iran faces protests since late December with activists reporting at least 5,032 dead and 27,600 detained.
- The arrival would bring roughly 5,700 additional service members, analysts of flight-tracking data noted dozens of U.S. military cargo planes heading to regional bases and waters.
- Iran's prior missile strikes showed the risk to regional bases, as Iran launched over a dozen missiles at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, which hosts thousands of troops and serves as U.S. Central Command's forward headquarters.
- President Donald Trump has kept options open, saying his threatened military action would make last year's strikes `look like peanuts`, while the U.K. Ministry of Defense deployed Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar and U.S. Central Command noted an F-15E Strike Eagle presence to enhance regional readiness.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group is heading from the Indian Ocean to the Middle East, with Iran describing any attack as “all-out war.” The move is both a message to Tehran and a political pressure point for Washington.
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