U.S. Navy launches Mideast drone task force amid Iran tensions
The U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet says it will launch a new task force that incorporates airborne, sailing and underwater drones after years of maritime attacks linked to ongoing tensions with Iran.
Yemen rebels claim drone attacks on major Saudi oil sites
Drones claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oilfield operated by Saudi Aramco early Saturday, sparking a huge fire at a processor crucial to global energy supplies.
Iran denies Trump’s claim that the U.S. destroyed its drone
The Iranian military said all its drones had returned safely to their bases and denied there was any confrontation with a U.S. vessel the previous day.
Trump says U.S. warship destroyed Iranian drone
President Donald Trump says the USS Boxer took defensive action after the drone closed to within 1,000 yards of the warship and ignored multiple calls to stand down.
The president told NBC News in an interview that about 150 Iranians would have been killed by the strikes, and he did not think such an attack was a proportionate response for Iran's shooting down of a U.S. drone.
Flights are being rerouted to avoid areas around the Strait of Hormuz as America warned commercial airliners could be mistakenly attacked.
Trump tweeted Friday that the U.S. was ready to "retaliate last night on 3 different sights."…
Iran's U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi says a U.S. drone despite repeated radio warnings entered into Iranian airspace "and engaged in a clear spying operation."…
On Twitter, President Donald Trump responded to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard attack on a U.S. drone Thursday morning, declaring that "Iran made a very big mistake."…
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