Tag Archives: Climbing between the US and Iran

An oil tanker wanted by the United States for allegedly evading sanctions against Iran was hijacked on July 5 off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a seafarers’ organization said on Wednesday. Satellite photos showed the ship in Iranian waters on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear what happened …

Two rockets attacked US diplomatic and military facilities overnight, Iraqi security forces said Sunday, when a powerful Iranian-backed armed group denied responsibility for a series of such attacks. Since October, US diplomats and troops across Iraq have been the target of approximately three dozen rocket attacks that Washington attributed to …