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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The US seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship after “blowing a hole” in its engine room when it tried to break past the Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump revealed ...

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

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” ...

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 has said the US Navy have seized an Iranian cargo ship after ‘blowing a hole in their engine room’ on the Strait of Hormuz. The US President claimed his forces are now searching the ...

Not so long ago, a passenger ship’s engine room was noisy, dirty and chaotic. Controls were largely manual and there was a ...