The US boarding of an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday shows Washington making good on a pledge to track Iran-linked vessels anywhere in the world, an extension of its blockade of Iranian ...

American forces boarded and seized a sanctioned oil tanker carrying Iranian crude in the Bay of Bengal in late April 2026, pushing Washington’s enforcement campaign against Tehran thousands of miles ...

Iran says it has detained the Barbados-flagged oil tanker Ocean Koi in the Gulf of Oman, opening a new maritime front in the U.S.-Iran crisis just as diplomats wait for Tehran’s response to a U.S.

The war in Iran and the closed Strait of Hormuz are accelerating a major shift in the oil tanker market, in which smaller tankers carrying fuels are becoming crude carriers amid better economics as ...

U.S. naval operations against Iran have expanded beyond the Middle East, as U.S. forces on Tuesday seized a tanker ship suspected of smuggling oil in the Indian Ocean and escorted at least one other ...