All the 12 crew members with Indian and Sri Lankan nationalities were also arrested.

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Iran has released all crew members of the MSC Aries which it seized in Iranian territorial waters on a judicial order last month.

Iran’s maritime rescue service saved 21 Sri Lankan sailors from a sinking oil tanker in the Sea of Oman.

American and British forces carried out a series of airstrikes against positions across Yemen after the Arab country’s military staged strikes against a US oil tanker and warships in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.

Yemen's Armed Forces strike American vessels in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who are enduring a genocidal Washington-backed Israeli war.

US forces have attacked Yemen, hours after a British oil tanker was struck with a similar projectile and set alight in the Gulf of Aden after transiting the Red Sea.

Yemeni forces strike British tanker heading towards the occupied territories, in support of Gaza, which is enduring a genocidal US and UK-backed Israeli war.