seized a tugboat and detained its 12 Filipino crew members on suspicion of smuggling diesel fuel in the Persian Gulf, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Saturday./ 5th Fleet was aware of the report but declined further comment, Cmdr. Joshua Frey, a spokesman, said./ In Manila, the ...
flagged tanker Stena Impero remains anchored off the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas after the Revolutionary Guards impounded it on July 19 for breaking "international maritime rules" (AFP Photo/Hasan Shirvani)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran seized a boat and arrested 12 Filipinos as it busted a ...
Iran’s coast guard has seized a foreign tugboat suspected of smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 Filipino crew members, state television reported on Saturday. It said the tugboat was carrying nearly 284,000 liters of diesel. The report did not say what national flag the vessel was ...
Iran's coast guard has seized a foreign tugboat suspected of smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 Filipino crew members, state television reported on Saturday. It said the tugboat was carrying nearly 284,000 liters of diesel. The report did not say what national flag the vessel was ...
Iran’s coast guard has seized a vessel for allegedly smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 crew members from the Philippines, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The vessel was carrying nearly 284,000 liters of diesel, the news agency said on Saturday. Iran, which has some of ...
33AM [Updated: Sat Sep 7, 2019 10:43AM ]/ Iran says it has dismantled a fuel smuggling ring after seizing a Philippine tanker in the Persian Gulf and taking its crew into custody. Colonel Hossein Dahaki, the commander of Hormozgan Province coastguard, said Saturday that his forces had detained ...
Sharif had reported extensively from northern Gaza, Al Jazeera said/ Five Al Jazeera journalists including prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif have been killed in a targeted Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital. Al-Sharif and another correspondent, Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with ...
Meir Simcha agreed to talk, but he wanted to do it somewhere special, because for him, this is a special time. In a place where nation, religion and war are linked inextricably with politics and the possession of land, Simcha chose a patch of shade under a fig tree next to a spring of fresh ...
Gazans carry aid packages from a food distribution point in Zikim in the northern Gaza Strip/ A further 11 deaths resulting from malnutrition have been reported in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. That brings the total number of malnutrition-related deaths to 212, including 98 ...
About one million people still live in Gaza City, which has already seen widespread damage due to Israeli bombardment/ News of the Israeli government's decision to take over Gaza City is being met not surprisingly with despair in Gaza. Gaza City, its capital, is on a countdown to oblivion. ...
Demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday while the Israeli security cabinet convened/ has been met with concern in Israel, particularly by families of hostages still being held by Hamas. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum: Bring Them Home Now has said the plan "means abandoning ...
'Chilling' aerial video shows Gaza in ruins/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel intends to take control of all of the Gaza Strip, ahead of a key meeting where ministers are now deciding whether to back such a move. Netanyahu affirmed the intention in an interview with Fox ...
Twenty people have been killed and more than 30 injured in central Gaza after four trucks overturned on a crowd, the Hamas-run civil defence agency says. Crowds rushed to the vehicles on a road south east of Deir al-Balah on Tuesday evening. They climbed on top of the trucks, causing the drivers ...
Hezbollah has described the Lebanese government's plans for arms control as "a grave sin"/ Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militant and political movement, says it will disregard a decision by Lebanon's government to task the army with establishing a state monopoly on arms. "We will treat this ...
Scenes like these have led to condemnation of Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries/ After nearly two years of war, Hamas's military capability is severely weakened and its political leadership under intense pressure. Yet, throughout the war Hamas has managed to continue to use a secret ...
Netanyahu's plan reportedly faces opposition from military chiefs/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets his security cabinet, Israeli media say. "The die has been cast. We're going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and ...