CNN: America will reduce its forces in the region

The United States plans to withdraw its Marine Corps rapid response force from the Mediterranean Sea, citing a US Defense Department official, according to CNN. reduce the area.

According to CNN, the American official, who did not want to be named, said that the 26th Marine Corps Rapid Response Force along with the amphibious assault flotilla USS Bataan is expected to depart in March. to the United States, he said: The exact time of the movement of these Marines and the fleet with them to the United States is not known, and if the situation in the region deteriorates in the meantime, the Pentagon can still decide to keep this group there.

The rapid reaction forces of marines who were sent to the region in October last year have also been trained to help with evacuation operations, which was one of the reasons for their deployment to the region at the beginning of the war in Gaza, but as the fifth approached During this war, the need to evacuate American citizens has not been realized.

According to CNN, the Pentagon has refused to comment on this matter.

In the first weeks of the beginning of the conflicts between Palestine and the Zionist regime, the American media announced that a unit of the quick reaction forces of the American marines is moving towards the eastern Mediterranean in late October (mid-November). This unit is “26 Expeditionary marines in the land-sea battleship “U. S. The ship has been in the West Asia for the past few weeks and has just headed for the Suez Canal. A US official said the Bataan is currently in the Red Sea and is expected to enter the eastern Mediterranean soon.

Source: IRNA