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The USNS "Big Horn" of the United States Navy runs aground and is damaged off the coast of Oman while operating in the Middle East after replenishing the USS "Abraham Lincoln" carrier strike group.
2024-09-24

The United States Navy and the Royal Navy strike thirteen Houthi locations across Yemen, damaging underground facilities and vessels, killing at least two people and wounding ten.
2024-05-30

U.S. officials confirm that more than a dozen Houthi sites have been targeted with Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. Navy warships and fighter jets. The military targets allegedly included logistical hubs, air defence systems, and weapons storage locations.
2024-01-12

U.S. President Donald Trump reports the United States Navy's USS "Boxer" "destroys" an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) drone in a "defensive action", in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian drone reportedly came within 1000 yards of the U.S. vessel and ignored multiple calls to stand down.
2019-07-18

Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz to shipping if the U.S. re-applies sanctions to the country after the U.S withdrew from the JCPOA deal earlier in the year.
2018-07-5

A Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet makes an "unsafe close-range intercept" of a United States Navy P-8A Poseidon over the Black Sea in international airspace, coming within 10 feet (3.3 m) of the U.S. aircraft.
2016-09-7

Greg Poling, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says the U.S. operation was aimed at testing control of the seas, not sovereignty over the disputed islands, to force a clarification of China's claims. Under maritime law, artificial islands were not usually afforded the 12-mile territorial zone, and that the U.S. Navy deliberately chose to send the destroyer near Subi Reef for this reason.
2015-10-27

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NSTB) has asked the U.S. Navy to resume the search ended by the U.S. Coast Guard for the merchant vessel SS "El Faro" believed lost on October 7 during Hurricane Joaquin. The loss of the ship — with its crew of 33 hands — is regarded as “the worst U.S. merchant marine disaster of recent memory.”
2015-10-15

Iran claims that the seizure of the "Maersk Tigris" in the Strait of Hormuz was related to an unpaid debt. [http:--www.nbcnews.com-news-world-iran-says-seizure-cargo-ship-maersk-tigris-tied-debt-n351246 (NBC News)]The United States Navy says it will accompany American-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz. [http:--abcnews.go.com-Politics-wireStory-us-navy-ships-accompany-us-flagged-ships-gulf-30707791 (AP via ABC News)]date=August 2019 The United States Navy says it will accompany American-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz. [http:--abcnews.go.com-Politics-wireStory-us-navy-ships-accompany-us-flagged-ships-gulf-30707791 (AP via ABC News)]date=August 2019
2015-04-30

Australian David Hicks wins an appeal in the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review against his conviction for providing material support to terrorism in 2007 in a U.S. Navy court in Guantanamo Bay.
2015-02-18