Iran

Iran has captured 15 British sailors and Marines from the frigate HMS Cornwall, which is patrolling the Shatt Al Arab waterway. The British servicemen were returning from a mission of boarding a freighter, and were “surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters.”

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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