UAE, Israel, Bahrain, US conduct joint naval exercise in Red Sea
Fighter jets from Saudi Arabia and Israel flew alongside a US B-1 bomber over the region today in a separate exercise of force.
The US, UAE, Bahrain and Israel kicked off their first-ever publicly acknowledged joint naval exercise this week in the Red Sea.
The five-day operation focuses on interdiction and search and seizure tactics in order to build cooperative know-how among the four navies.
Last year, the UAE and Bahrain became the first Arab countries to normalize ties with Israel in over two decades.
The normalization initiative, dubbed the Abraham Accords, was pushed by the Donald Trump administration in part to counter Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East.
