Third aircraft carrier and thousands of troops head to Mideast as Trump weighs new Iran strikes
The U.S. military is deploying approximately 9,000 troops to the Middle East aboard ships as the Trump administration considers potential strikes on Iran.
The U.S. military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Thursday. The bolstering of the American military presence comes as President Donald Trump warned anew that new strikes against Iran could be on the horizon.
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