Friday at BBC Verifypublished at 10:41 GMT
10:41 GMT
Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor
Good morning.
We’re keeping across popular flight-tracking sites like Flightradar24 to help us build a picture of what military aircraft the US is deploying to the Middle East. President Donald Trump has said the world will find out “over the next, probably, 10 days” whether the US will reach a deal with Iran or take military action.
This morning alone we’ve seen six US Air Force transport aircraft flying into and out of the region. Previously we’ve tracked aerial refuelling tankers flying from the UK to the eastern Mediterranean region, along with surveillance and communication aircraft.
We’re also keeping an eye on ship-tracking to see where the US aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford is. It has been deployed from the Caribbean and last broadcast its position off Morocco on Wednesday. It’s expected to continue east into the Mediterranean.
Elsewhere, the Iranian government says one of its fighter jets has crashed during military exercises in the west of Iran. We’re looking to see whether footage or pictures have been posted online that can be verified.
More on those stories to come this Friday.
