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US sends third aircraft carrier strike group to Middle East

The US is sending the USS George H. W. Bush aircraft carrier to the Middle East, which will create an unprecedented deployment of three American aircraft carriers in the region simultaneously, APA reports citing The Wall Street Journal reported.

According to the newspaper, the aircraft carrier departed from the Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia on Tuesday and will join the strike group already deployed in the region: the USS Abraham Lincoln, operating in the Arabian Sea, and the USS Gerald R. Ford, currently undergoing repairs in a Croatian port.

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