US CENTCOM chief completes 10-day visit to Middle East

The commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) finished his 10-day trip to the Middle East on Saturday, Anadolu reports. During the trip, Adm. Brad Cooper visited six countries and the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, CENTCOM said on US social media platform X. Cooper met with military leaders and officials in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. He also met with deployed US service members, who are among the more than 50,000 US service members operating across the Middle East. READ: CENTCOM says US forces redirected 17 commercial vessels, boarded 2 Cooper thanked the service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln “for their tremendous dedication and courage” during his second visit to […]