The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group has left the Red Sea on Saturday and will be replaced with the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said.

"The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKE CSG) departed the US Central Command area of responsibility today and will remain briefly in the US European Command area of responsibility before returning home after more than seven months deployed in support of US regional deterrence and force protection efforts," he said in a statement.

Ryder added that the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group will arrive in the US Central Command's area of responsibility after completing a scheduled exercise in the Indo-Pacific as early as next week.