(FILES) In this file picture downloaded from the US Navy website, dated March 2, 2011, USS Stout (DDG 55), a guided-missile destroyer, transits in the US 6th Fleet area of responsibility during a routine ballistic missile defence deployment. The US Navy has deployed the USS Stout, is the fifth destroyer to be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean, a defense official told AFP on August 29, 2013, as expectations grow of an imminent strike on Syria. AFP PHOTO / HO /NAVAL VISUAL NEWS SERVICES / GARY A. PRILL — RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / HO /NAVAL VISUAL NEWS SERVICES / GARY A. PRILL” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS – NO ARCHIVES / RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION