BBC Verify has seen US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran ahead of talks between the two countries ...

Iran closes key Strait of Hormuz shipping route after ayatollah threatens to sink US warships - The strategic waterway has ...

The US has sent two aircraft carriers, guided-missile destroyers and littoral combat ships to the Middle East, reinforcing ...

The Pentagon has dramatically reduced the number of ships it had in the Caribbean ahead of the Maduro raid, moving vessels toward the Middle East.

Washington currently has 13 warships in the Middle East: one aircraft carrier — the USS Abraham Lincoln — nine destroyers and three littoral combat ships, a US official said. The Ford — the world's ...

Is China stepping in to defend Iran? In a move turning heads across Washington, Tel Aviv, and Tehran… Beijing has deployed ...

The U.S. is sending the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike ...

The massive US military buildup in the Middle East, including warships, fighter jets, and refueling aircraft, lays the foundation for a potentially sustained campaign against Iran -- should President ...

President Trump is considering sending a second aircraft carrier to the waters surrounding Iran should Tehran refuse to play ...

IRAN’S supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has threatened to sink US warships “to the bottom of the sea” as tensions escalate over nuke talks. Donald Trump deployed the United ...

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Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned Donald Trump, who keeps threatening that the United States has sent a warship towards Iran, saying that more threatening than that is the piece of ...