The US boarding of an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday shows Washington making good on a pledge to track Iran-linked vessels anywhere in the world, an extension of its blockade of Iranian ...

US forces boarded the sanctioned oil tanker M/T Tifani in the Indo-Pacific without incident, marking an expanded enforcement of Washington’s maritime blockade against Iran. The operation comes as a ...

India, April 21 -- The United States military has intercepted and boarded a sanctioned vessel identified as the M/T Tifani during a nighttime maritime operation in the Indian Ocean, according to a ...

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The U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean overnight without incident, the Pentagon announced ...

US forces boarded a sanctioned vessel linked to Iran in the Indo-Pacific, signalling tougher enforcement as tensions rise and uncertainty surrounds planned US–Iran talks in Islamabad.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Department of Defense said on April 23 that troops had boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean “without ...

U.S. forces board and interdict the M/T Tifani, a stateless crude oil tanker previously sanctioned by the State Department for facilitating Iranian oil transfers. (@DeptofWar via X) ...

U.S. forces boarded another “stateless” vessel linked to Iran, the U.S. military said Thursday. The tanker was interdicted in the Indian Ocean — far from the hotly contested Strait of Hormuz — in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia, the Pentagon said Tuesday, as it puts into place a global warning to track down ...