US authorities are preparing to send additional combat aircraft to the Middle East. The decision to deploy them was made in light of rising tensions in the region.
The New York Times reports citing a source that the US is concerned about a possible Iranian strike on Israel after the assassination in Tehran of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas movement.
Earlier it became known about a telephone conversation between US leader Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the topic of which was the possibility of US “military deployments” to support Tel Aviv.