The Pentagon is deploying a third aircraft carrier strike group and up to 10,000 sailors and Marines to the Middle East. The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier and the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group left the port of San Diego this week and are expected to be positioned near Iran by the end of November. They’ll add to about 50,000 U.S. military personnel already in the region. In an interview with Time magazine published Thursday, Trump said renewed large-scale strikes on Iran were “possible” after the November midterm elections.

Meanwhile, ships continue to come under fire while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with five vessels reportedly struck by projectiles in just 72 hours. On Thursday, a supertanker with a capacity of 2.5 million barrels of oil caught fire after it was hit off the coast of Oman.