The aircraft carrier and its support ships spent several months in the Pacific before supporting anti-Houthi operations around Yemen.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had ordered the Roosevelt to extend its deployment for a short time and remain in the region as the USS Abraham Lincoln was pushed to get to the area more quickly.

Open-source satellite imagery captured on Tuesday appeared to show the Theodore Roosevelt in the Gulf of Oman, which lies between the Arabian Sea to the east and the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf to the west. The aircraft carrier has been operating in the Middle East since July 12.

The Biden administration beefed up the U.S. military presence there to help defend Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies and to safeguard U.S. troops.

The carrier has been operating alongside the Abraham Lincoln in recent weeks amid fears of war breaking out between Israel and Iran.

The Pentagon’s rare move to keep two Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East over the past several weeks has now finished, as the USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading home, according to U.S. officials.