Dangerous confrontations between Iranian and American warships in the Persian Gulf are up more than 50 percent in 2016 compared with this time last year, according to a U.S. defense official – despite the highly touted nuclear accord, as well as a recent $1.7 billion U.S. payment to Tehran. The ...
One Iranian ship came within 200 yards of a U.S. ship in Gulf waters./ WASHINGTON - A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this ...
An Iranian craft came within 200 yards of the USS Squall, a US military spokesman said The Pentagon has said a US Navy vessel fired three shots to warn an Iranian military boat off in the Gulf. Spokesman Peter Cook said it was one of several incidents of Iranian vessels harassing US ships in the ...
A US Navy official told CNN four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels conducted a "high-speed intercept" of the USS Nitze in waters near the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, deeming the incident "unsafe and unprofessional."/ The official said two of the vessels slowed and turned away only after ...
The official called the incident "unsafe and unprofessional."/ WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Four vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “harassed” a U.S. destroyer on Tuesday by carrying out a “high speed intercept” in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. defense ...
Four ships belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) "harassed" an American destroyer in the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, a U.S. Navy official confirmed to Fox News. The official said the Iranian ships carried out a "high-speed intercept," with two of the vessels coming within ...
A U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship fired warning shots at an Iranian ship that sailed within 200 yards in the Northern Persian Gulf Wednesday in the second close call this week involving U.S. and Iranian vessels, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday. The USS Squall fired the shots, ...
A US Navy official told CNN four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels conducted a "high-speed intercept" of the USS Nitze in waters near the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, deeming the incident "unsafe and unprofessional."/ The official said two of the vessels slowed and turned away only after ...
File picture shows Iranian submarines taking part in a naval parade near the Strait of Hormuz. For illustrativ/ This image provided by Nasa shows the Strait of Hormuz taken from the International Space Station in September/ A plane flies over the mountains, south of the Strait of Hormuz, as ...
Four of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels "harassed" a US warship on Tuesday near the , a US defense official said, amid Washington's concerns about Iran's posture in the Gulf and in the Syrian civil war. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels “harassed” a U.S. warship on Tuesday near the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. defense official said, amid Washington’s concerns about Iran’s posture in the Gulf and in the Syrian civil war./ The USS Nitze, a Guided ...
Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ghetto uprising as a teenager in 1943, helping to make petrol bombs. Taken prisoner, he survived concentration camps and a death march before the end of World War II. After ...
Marco Rubio warned of "bumps in the road" but said the US is committed to making the peace plan work/ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said "a lot of countries" have offered to be part of an international security force for Gaza - a key part of President Donald Trump's peace plan - but ...
The bodies of the dead Palestinians were transferred by the Red Cross in refrigerated lorries/ Out of a single room, with no DNA testing facilities or cold storage units of its own, the forensics team at Gaza's Nasser hospital face the challenges brought by peace. Over the past eleven days, 195 ...
An Israeli annexation of West Bank would threaten peace deal/ US Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have criticised a move by Israel's parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank. On Wednesday, far-right politicians in the Knesset took the symbolic step of ...
The Israeli military is exerting control over more of Gaza than expected from the ceasefire deal with Hamas, a BBC Verify analysis has found. Under the first stage of the deal, Israel agreed to retreat to a boundary running along the north, south and east of Gaza. The divide was marked by a ...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said Israel is obliged to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by the United Nations and its entities to ensure the basic needs of the Palestinian civilians are met. also said Israel had not substantiated its allegations that ...
Gaza health crisis will last 'for generations', says WHO chief/ Gaza is experiencing a health "catastrophe" that will last for "generations to come", the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a ...
Arie Zalmanowicz and Tamir Adar's bodies were returned by Hamas on Tuesday night/ Israel's military says the bodies of two hostages returned by Hamas on Tuesday have been identified as Arie Zalmanowicz and Master Sgt (res) Tamir Adar. Zalmanowicz , 85, was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir ...
The Israeli military has begun to mark out the withdrawal line with yellow blocks/ Under Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, the "yellow line" - which Israel withdrew to earlier this month - is the first of three stages of Israeli military withdrawal. It leaves it in control of about 53% of the ...
JD Vance and his wife Usha were greeted by US ambassador Mike Huckabee and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin on arrival in Tel Aviv/ US Vice-President JD Vance has arrived in Israel as part of the Trump administration's efforts to strengthen the Gaza ceasefire agreement. He is expected ...