US sends a few thousand more troops to Middle East to boost security

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Washington —

The U.S. is sending an further "few thousand" troops to the Middle East to bolster information and to beryllium prepared to support Israel if necessary, the Pentagon said Monday.

The accrued beingness volition travel from aggregate combatant pitchy squadrons, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters.

It follows caller strikes successful Lebanon and the assassination of Hezbollah person Hassan Nasrallah, a important escalation successful the warfare successful the Middle East, this clip betwixt Israel and Hezbollah.

The further unit includes squadrons of F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16, A-10 and F-22 combatant jets and the unit needed to enactment them. The jets were expected to rotate successful and regenerate the squadrons already there. Instead, some the existing and caller squadrons volition stay successful spot to treble the airpower connected hand.

On Sunday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin besides announced that helium was temporarily extending the USS Abraham Lincoln bearer onslaught radical and its associated squadrons successful the region.

The jets are not determination to assistance successful an evacuation, Singh said, "they are determination for the extortion of U.S. forces."

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