A US Navy destroyer has fired three warning shots at Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Persian Gulf. Officials say four fast-attack boats were closing on the USS ...

In the first of these, four fishermen, including an Emirati Nukhada or boat captain, were attacked by an Iranian marine patrol in the international waters, 30km off the coasts of Ras Al Khaimah.

Overall encounters with the Iranian navy, which most consists of fast patrol boats, has also increased, officials added. On Wednesday the USS Squall was forced to fire three warning shots at ...

CENTCOM released grainy black and white video it said showed crew members of an Iranian patrol boat removing an “unexploded limpet mine” from the hull of Japanese-owned tanker Kokuka Courageous.

U.S. military officials released a video showing what they said was an Iranian patrol crew removing an unexploded mine from a tanker that was attacked in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. Photo: U.S. Navy ...

It is the Revolutionary Guards' flotilla of fast patrol boats that seem to figure most prominently in Iranian efforts to harass and monitor US and other shipping in the Gulf. Iranian media earlier ...

US Air Force fighter jets are patrolling the Persian Gulf, and they appear to be carrying guided cluster munitions capable of tearing apart Iranian swarm boats. "F-15E Strike Eagles from the 336th ...