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This morning, the United Kingdom Maritime Trades Office reported that a vessel had been boarded, when 50 miles northeast of Sohar, Oman by 4-5 armed unauthorized boarders wearing black masks and black military style uniforms. The identity of the masked boarders was soon known. The tanker was grabbed by...
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,...
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) departs the Mediterranean Sea on April 12, 2023. Photo via Maritimegraphy used with permission
The Norfolk-based George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is in the Atlantic sailing for home after seven and a half months in the Mediterranean Sea, according to Wednesday photos from ship spotters.
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar Wednesday after arriving in the region on Aug. 25, according to photos posted on social. Bush is set to begin...
https://news.usni.org/2023/04/12/carrier-uss-george-h-w-bush-leaves-mediterranean-sea-after-230-days
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) departs the Mediterranean Sea on April 12, 2023. Photo via Maritimegraphy used with permission
The Norfolk-based George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is in the Atlantic sailing for home after seven and a half months in the Mediterranean Sea, according to Wednesday photos from ship spotters.
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar Wednesday after arriving in the region on Aug. 25, according to photos posted on social. Bush is set to begin...
https://news.usni.org/2023/04/12/carrier-uss-george-h-w-bush-leaves-mediterranean-sea-after-230-days
Guided-missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN-728) transits the Suez Canal en route to the Red Sea, on April 7, 2023. US Navy Photo
USS Florida (SSGN-728) deployed to the Middle East this week after spending months in the Mediterranean Sea, the U.S. Navy said in a rare public announcement.
The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine entered the Suez Canal on Friday from the Mediterranean Sea bound for U.S. 5th Fleet, a Navy spokesperson told USNI News on Saturday.
“The submarine entered the region April...
Σε άμεσα μέτρα και κυρώσεις κατά δικτύου λαθρεμπορίου πετρελαίου, καθώς και των μεσιτών που αναμιγνύονται, προέβησαν οι ΗΠΑ, βάσει δημοσιεύματος του πρακτορείου ειδήσεων Reuters. Οι κυρώσεις στρέφονται εναντίον δικτύου που φαίνεται να υποστηρίζει το ιρανικό Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Ειδικότερα, οι κυρώσεις αφορούν φυσικό πρόσωπο με καταγωγή από το Ομάν και τέσσερα νομικά πρόσωπα, εκ των οποίων οι δύο εταιρείες έχουν έδρα στο Ομάν, η μία στη Λιβερία και η άλλη στη Ρουμανία.
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The following is the Sept. 29, 2020 Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Iraq and U.S. Policy
From the report
Al Kadhimi Government Facing Numerous Challenges
In May 2020, Iraq’s parliament confirmed Iraqi National Intelligence Service director Mustafa al Kadhimi as Prime Minister, and in June finished confirmation of his cabinet members, bringing months of political deadlock over government leadership to a close. Upon taking office, Al Kadhimi declared that his government would serve...
https://news.usni.org/2020/09/30/report-on-iraq-and-u-s-policy
The following is the Jan. 6, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, U.S.-Iran Conflict and Implications for U.S. Policy.
From the report
Since May 2019, U.S.-Iran tensions have heightened significantly, and evolved into conflict after U.S. military forces killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) and one of Iran’s most important military commanders, in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad on January 2, 2020.
In 2018, the Trump...
https://news.usni.org/2020/01/08/report-to-congress-on-u-s-iran-conflict
Undated photo of Russian AGI Viktor Leonov.
This post is part of a series of review stories looking back at the top naval news from 2019.
The U.S. Navy pushed its interoperability with foreign allies and partner nations in 2019 to counter increased naval activity by Russia and China.
China and Russia, though, did not sit still during the year. Each nation’s navy took great strides in attempting to bolster their fleets. The work to increase capabilities, though, was not smooth, as Russia’s and...
https://news.usni.org/2019/12/25/top-stories-2019-international-operations
Undated file photo provided by Northrop Grumman, a Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle conducts tests over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
A Navy surveillance drone suffered major damage during a takeoff attempt while operating in the Middle East, Navy officials confirmed to USNI News on Thursday.
The service’s $180-million RQ-4A Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) was attempting to take off from a runway in U.S. Central Command and was hit by a piece of debris...
https://news.usni.org/2019/12/12/navy-rq-4a-surveillance-drone-suffers-major-damage-in-middle-east