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US Navy Sends Guided-missile Submarine to Middle East

US Navy 5th Fleet spokesman Commander Tim Hawkins at 5th Fleet headquarters in the Bahraini capital Manama in 2021. AFP
US Navy 5th Fleet spokesman Commander Tim Hawkins at 5th Fleet headquarters in the Bahraini capital Manama in 2021. AFP
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US Navy Sends Guided-missile Submarine to Middle East

US Navy 5th Fleet spokesman Commander Tim Hawkins at 5th Fleet headquarters in the Bahraini capital Manama in 2021. AFP
US Navy 5th Fleet spokesman Commander Tim Hawkins at 5th Fleet headquarters in the Bahraini capital Manama in 2021. AFP

The US Navy said on Saturday a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine was operating in the Middle East in support of the Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet.

The USS Florida entered the region on Thursday and began transiting the Suez Canal, Commander Timothy Hawkins said in a statement.

"It is capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and is deployed to US 5th Fleet to help ensure regional maritime security and stability," Hawkins said.

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UN Deeply Concerned as 45 Lebanese Soldiers Killed amid Israel-Hezbollah War

A general view shows Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
A general view shows Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
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UN Deeply Concerned as 45 Lebanese Soldiers Killed amid Israel-Hezbollah War

A general view shows Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)
A general view shows Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from northern Israel, November 25, 2024. (Reuters)

The United Nations said it is “deeply alarmed” by escalating hostilities between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, and is concerned at numerous attacks on the Lebanese Armed Forces which says 45 of its soldiers have lost their lives.

The Lebanese military has declared its “non-involvement” in the ongoing Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday.

Dujarric said UN special coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert was in Israel on Monday for talks with senior Israeli officials on the urgent need for a ceasefire and implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The resolution calls for the Lebanese army to deploy in southern Lebanon bordering Israel, territory still controlled by Hezbollah.

Dujarric said Lebanese authorities report that an average of 250 people have been killed every week in November, bringing the death toll to more than 3,700 since October 2023.