US calls off protection mission for US-flagged vessels in Gulf
Handout picture released by the US Navy Media Content Services shows helicopters flying from the US aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt on April 13, 2015 in the Gulf of Oman (AFP Photo/Scott Fenaroli)/ Washington (AFP) - The US Navy has halted a mission to accompany American-flagged vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said Wednesday, in a sign of reduced tensions in the strategic waterway./ The protection mission had been ordered last week after a Marshall Islands-flagged ship was seized by Iran's Revolutionary ...
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