Thousands of US troops arrive in Red Sea amid ratcheting Iran tensions

USS Bataan is an amphibious assault ship that can carry fixed-wing and rotary aircraft as well as landing craft [File: Angela Weiss/AFP] More than 3,000 US military personnel have arrived in the Red Sea on board two warships, part of a beefed-up response from the United States after alleged seizures of several civilian ships by Iran, the US Navy said.

The US sailors and marines entered the Red Sea on Sunday after transiting through the Suez Canal in a preannounced deployment, the US Fifth Fleet said in a statement on Monday. Keep reading

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