Tanker Advantage Sweet. Advantage Tanker ImageThis post will be updated as new information becomes available.
Iranian naval forces seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, U.S. 5th Fleet announced.
The Marshall Island-flagged Advantage Sweet was captured at 1:15 p.m. local time on Thursday about 40 miles east of Fujairah, UAE south of the Strait of Hormuz, according to merchant ship traffic data from Marine Traffic.
The oil tanker had departed from Kuwait and was headed for Houston,...