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Iran said Monday it had fired upon an American naval vessel on the first day of a bid by Washington to force open the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping. The semiofficial Fars News Agency, which has close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),

But less than 24 hours later, several merchant ships in the Gulf reported explosions or fires, an oil port in the UAE was set ablaze by Iranian missiles and the US said it had destroyed six Iranian small boats in order for two ships to pass with a US escort.

An electrical fire aboard the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Higgins caused the vessel to lose power and propulsion in the Indo-Pacific region on Tuesday, officials told the Washington Examiner. The USS Higgins is the Navy’s main presence in Asia,

A US Navy warship lost power and propulsion for several hours in the Indo-Pacific on Tuesday, a US defense official said, after suffering what a Navy statement called an “engineering casualty” in its electrical system.

By Parisa Hafezi, Ahmed Tolba and Idrees Ali DUBAI/WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers had entered the Gulf to break an Iranian blockade and that two U.