Wednesday's incident is the second time in less than a week than Iranian forces have seized an oil tanker in Middle Eastern waters.

President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that he's instructed the Navy to "shoot down and destroy" Iranian gunboats should they harass U.S. ships. Trump's tweet came hours after multiple media ...

TEHRAN, Iran -- It turned out to be the international crisis that wasn't. Less than a day after 10 U.S. Navy sailors were detained in Iran when their boats drifted into Iranian waters, they and their ...

Iran's Navy once again harassed US ships operating in the Persian Gulf, this time coming within 68 yards of the ships on Monday night, prompting one of the American ships to fire warning shots, ...

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Iran said on Thursday it had a court order to seize a tanker in Gulf waters a day earlier after it collided with an Iranian vessel, one of two tankers the U.S. Navy said it prevented Iran from ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has seized an oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the ...

The USS Thomas Hudner is the latest warship to arrive in the region as airstrikes on suspected drug boats continue. By Nicholas Slayton Published Dec 6, 2025 5:04 PM EST Half a year after it was in ...

It sounds impossible, but under international maritime law, Iran can legally tow away certain U.S. Navy vessels. The problem is a single rule that unmanned ships break by design. As the Navy moves ...

"Today, OFAC is stepping up pressure on Iran's shadow fleet, which exports Iranian oil and petroleum products through ...

British forces found Iranian-made versions of Russia's 9M133 Kornet anti-tank guided missiles and parts used to make medium-range ballistic missiles.