A US Navy destroyer opened fire on an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel's engine room in the north Arabian Sea over the weekend, a rare use of force that spoke to the US willingness to fully enforce its ...

USS Spruance fired nine "inert" rounds into the engine room of the Iranian-flagged M/V Touska last weekend.

Donald Trump says US has ‘blown a hole’ in cargo vessel Touska that tried to breach its naval blockade Connor Stringer is The Telegraph’s Chief Washington Correspondent. He leads coverage of the White ...

President Donald Trump announced Sunday the U.S. Navy fired upon and seized an Iranian-flagged vessel trying to run the American blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump announced a naval blockade of ...

President Donald Trump claiming a guided missile destroyer had “blown a hole in the engine room" before US Marines took ...

'It did not go well for them' ...

It's the second time the Navy has used force against an Iranian commercial vessel since the Trump administration's blockade ...

Donald Trump said the US forces gave "fair warning" to the ship to stop, which was ignored, "so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room." ...

Donald Trump says the Iranian-flagged ship ignored warnings from the US Navy, but Iran says the action is piracy and breaches ...

President Donald Trump said the Navy stopped and boarded an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, “blowing a hole” ...