US Sending Aircraft Carrier To Middle East As Region Braces For Iranian Retaliation
Handout photo dated January 18, 2012 of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Indian Ocean. The US is sending a carrier strike group, a fighter squadron and additional warships to the Middle East as the region braces for an Iranian retaliation to the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran earlier this week. On Friday August 2, 2024, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group, which is currently operating in the Gulf of Oman, according to a statement from Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Eric S. Powell via ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA003091113
- Registered date
- 2012/1/18 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
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- 2400 × 1500 pixel
- Deployment size
- 2.48(MB)*
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