Oil prices have jumped more than 3%, and we are closer to war." This latest tanker seizure adds to the broader tensions between Iran and the United States, which have been strained over issues ...

The seizure followed last Thursday’s similar act against a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker, the Advantage Sweet, which is now held by Iranian authorities at Bandar Abbas. The initial tip to the ...

"The Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced the seizure of an American oil tanker in the waters of the Oman Sea with a court order," Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is ...

DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters) - Iran seized a second oil tanker in a week on Wednesday in Gulf waters, and the U.S. State Department called for its release, in the latest escalation in a series of ...

Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and is transferring it to an Iranian port in retaliation for the United States confiscating the same vessel and its oil last year, Tasnim News ...

a US-bound tanker of Kuwaiti crude that was chartered by Chevron. A US official said Thursday’s “seizure appears to be in retaliation for a prior US seizure of Iranian oil, which Iran recently ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran has seized a second oil tanker in a week, the US Navy said on Wednesday, increasing tensions in one of ...

Army says it seized tanker after it collided with Iranian boat U.S. Navy identifies tanker as Advantage Sweet Tanker had been headed for Houston - ship tracking data Tanker boarded by helicopter ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - An oil tanker confiscated by the United States for carrying Iranian oil and diverted to the U.S. Gulf Coast, was headed to the Bahamas on Wednesday under a new name ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has seized two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, accusing them of smuggling diesel fuel, according to state media. The latest seizure comes amid ongoing tensions ...