The Commander of the Iranian Army’s Naval Force, Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, says the 103rd and 104th flotillas of the ...
South Africa will host the multinational naval exercise Will for Peace 2026 in early January, when Chinese, Russian, and ...
Iran’s Navy commander praised the country’s “expanding maritime presence” beyond the region, announcing that the Navy’s 103rd ...
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 ...
The Iranian cargo ship is suspected of having provided targeting information and intelligence to the Houthis for their Red Sea attacks.
Iranian warships are heading to South African waters for the first time to participate in Exercise Mosi III alongside Russia ...
Iran has taken credit for seizing a ship on Friday that was off the coast of the UAE near the Strait of Hormuz. “Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has seized an oil tanker off the ...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday a legal settlement could be reached soon over its seizure of a Marshall-Islands flagged container ship, and the U.S. military said it stopped accompanying ...
An Iranian navy helicopter confronted a U.S. warship attempting to approach Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, Iranian state TV reported. The incident was the first direct ...
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The maritime rule that lets Iran seize US Navy ships

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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sending ...
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 ...