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Pentagon deploys thousands more Marines, another aircraft carrier to Mideast (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending several thousand more US Marines and Navy sailors as part of the Amphibious Ready Group led by the assault ship USS Makin Island to the Middle East alongside an additional aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a US official confirmed to Al-Monitor on Thursday. The Makin left port at Naval Base San Diego on Monday carrying the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, just one day after the Roosevelt was dispatched to cross the Pacific. The Roosevelt will likely
US troops exit Iraq after 12 years as Iran war reshapes regional security (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — The US military is preparing to announce the completion of the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq after more than a decade propping up Baghdad's forces in a shared fight against the Islamic State jihadist group. The last remaining American troops are scheduled to be out of Iraq by Wednesday. Their departure concludes a long mission of continuous presence advising, assisting and training Iraqi forces to sustain the war to destroy and contain the Sunni jihadist terror movement. The fe
CENTCOM chief meets Saudi Arabia's MBS amid Houthi gains in Yemen (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — The top commander of US military forces in the Middle East met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday after Yemen's Houthi rebels seized the high ground overlooking the Bab al-Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea. US Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, who heads US Central Command, met the de facto Saudi ruler in Jeddah to discuss "bilateral relations and the latest regional developments," the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday. Why it matters: Cooper's low-profile
CENTCOM chief in Saudi Arabia as Yemen's Houthis seize Bab al-Mandeb (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — The top US commander overseeing all American military forces in the Middle East is in Saudi Arabia to coordinate a potential response to Yemen's Houthi rebels routing the country's Saudi-backed, government-aligned forces, Al-Monitor can confirm. US Navy Adm. Brad Cooper flew to the kingdom overnight Thursday as Yemen's Riyadh-backed forces crumbled in the face of a lightning Houthi offensive southward along Yemen's western coast this week, two people familiar with the matter said. H
US strikes Iranian tankers after attempted attack on Navy ship (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — The US military carried out strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Gulf and around the southeastern Iranian port city of Jask, east of the Strait of Hormuz, in the latest retaliatory exchange of fire between the two sides. "American forces have struck multiple Iranian tankers tied to the IRGC in response to more attempted missile attacks on a US Navy warship," a US official told Al-Monitor. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said following the strikes that it had destroyed five tankers: th
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