Charged with attempts to sell secret data related to American nuclear submarines to an unnamed foreign entity, a US engineer and his wife could face life in prison.

A US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent .

Dubbed ‘Task Force 59’, it will be the first-of-its-kind US naval group, covering vast areas in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Red Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean.

The United States is conducting its first-ever Central Partnership Station mission in Lebanon to “build partner capacity” in the region.

As the US loses its airfields near Afghanistan, the US Navy is expected to provide launching ground for drones and manned aircraft to conduct airstrikes from the sea.

China says it will not tolerate foreign forces intervening in Chinese Taipei affairs and has to make strong responses to such acts of "collusion", after the self-ruled island reported the largest incursion to date of Chinese aircraft.

Russia has censured the presence of the US navy as part of a joint drill with Turkish forces in the Black Sea, calling on the United States to "stop reckless saber-rattling" in the region.

The Russian Defense Ministry says the country’s Black Sea Fleet is monitoring the movement of the US Navy destroyer USS Donald Cook that recently entered the strategic waters.

American alley In the summer of 2017, a grave crisis was already boiling in the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, stationed in one of the Persian Gulf countries, namely Bahrain.

A retired US Navy SEAL and special operations commander has suggested that Iran’s retaliation over the assassination of scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is certain, asserting that there is not “any way around it.”