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A US official said Washington plans to send a third aircraft carrier and an additional Marine division to the Middle East.
Last month, The Atlantic reported the USS Theodore Roosevelt was preparing to deploy to the Middle East, with the Department of War preparing to maintain two aircraft carrier strike groups in the region before the end of the year, suggesting the Roosevelt would replace the USS George H.W. Bush, which had been in the region since April.
However, Al Jazeera Arabic
