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

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 ...

The US has deployed 13 warships and a large fleet of aircraft to the Middle East, with a second aircraft carrier also en ...

The US has assembled what analysts are calling its largest military deployment near Iran since the Iraq War. The armada ...

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.

The USS Gerald R. Ford is on track to join the USS Abraham Lincoln near the Persian Gulf—giving America two carrier air wings to support a military operation inside Iran.

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

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

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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