The warship will replace the cruiser Antietam and is set to join Destroyer Squadron 15, the Navy’s largest destroyer squadron, upon arrival to Yokosuka.
The Shandong is the second Chinese aircraft carrier to enter service after the Liaoning, which was originally purchased as a hulk from Ukraine and entirely refurbished.
The Jan 20 2007, attack on the Karbala, provincial headquarters has been described as one of the most sophisticated attacks carried out against coalition forces in Iraq. Iranian involvement was believed to be behind the attack.
Since the outbreak of violence in Yemen in 2015, Iran-backed Houthi rebels have launched more than 250 missiles across the border killing at least 206 civilians and wounding nearly 950. Roughly 20,000 people have been displaced by the attacks.
Prosecutors also played a 12-minute recording of a gunman calmly telling a 911 dispatcher that he'd just fired a rifle inside a California synagogue to save white people from Jews.
Saudi Arabia spent billions to protect a kingdom built on oil but could not stop the suspected Iranian drone and missile attack, exposing gaps that even America’s most advanced weaponry failed to fill.