LONDON: Britain will send a third Royal Navy warship to the Gulf, the defense ministry announced Tuesday, while insisting that it did not “reflect an escalation” of tensions with Iran in the region. Britain has already sent the HMS Duncan, an air defense destroyer, to cover for frigate HMS Montrose while it undergoes maintenance in […]
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‘Flying objects’ damaged Japanese tanker in Gulf of Oman – shipping company president
Two “flying objects” damaged a Japanese tanker in a suspected attack on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, but there was no damage to the cargo of methanol, the president of the shipping company said on Friday. The Kokuka Courageous was sailing toward the port of Khor Fakkan in the United Arab Emirates after the […]
Two oil tankers targeted in Gulf of Oman
Two tankers were hit in suspected attacks in the Gulf of Oman and the crew have been evacuated, shipping sources said on Thursday, a month after a similar incident in which four tankers in the region were struck. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, part of the Royal Navy, earlier said it was aware of […]
The Muslim world: another turmoil brewing
President Donald Trump’s rage to give bloody cuts to the Muslim world continues unabated at the behest of his blue eyed boy, Prime Minister Netanyahu and, quite unfortunately, some Arab monarchs who, in their narrowness of vision, undermined the broader platform of the Organization of Islamic Conference at the altar of the expedient-ridden and pliable […]
Tillerson off to Gulf to defuse Gulf tension
WASHINGTON: The United States will again try to resolve a Gulf crisis that Washington has alternatively fueled or tried to soothe, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson heads back to the region. The top US diplomat did not himself hold out much hope of an immediate breakthrough in the stand-off between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, […]