Forces from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Israel and the United States Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) began a multilateral maritime security operations exercise in the Red Sea on Wednesday, NAVCENT said on Thursday.
This is the first publicly announced naval exercise between the United States, Israel and the two Gulf countries who both normalised diplomatic relations with Israel last year under a deal known as the Abraham Accords.
(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Alison Williams)
