The United States plans to deploy a Navy carrier and bomber task force to the middle east in response to “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings,” White House National Security Advisor John Bolton said in a statement Sunday night.
The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force will be deployed to the U.S. Central Command region, the statement said. The move comes amid escalating rocket attacks into Israel through the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Bolton Warns Iran: US Navy To Deploy Carrier And Bombers To Middle East
The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force will be deployed to the U.S. Central Command region, the statement said. The move comes amid escalating rocket attacks into Israel through the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Bolton Warns Iran: US Navy To Deploy Carrier And Bombers To Middle East