Topic: U.S. Fifth Fleet

Bahrain: Special court upholds death sentences

0 . A special appeals court in Bahrain upheld death sentences Sunday for two people convicted of killing policemen during anti-government ...

Iran not behind Mideast protests: Mullen

Iran foments instability in the Middle East but is not behind popular protests in Bahrain and other countries in the region, top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen said Monday in Qatar."Iran, I still believe, is a country that continues to ...

Mideast unrest puts US military access in jeopardy

Popular unrest sweeping the Middle East highlights the US military's reliance on Arab regimes that offer privileged access to airfields and ports from Cairo to Qatar.The military's dominant role in the region hinges on a web of agreements with ...

US carrier transits Suez Canal: navy

The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise has transited the Suez Canal on its way to the Gulf, the US Navy said Wednesday, raising the US military presence in a region buffeted by political unrest.Rear Admiral Terry Craft, commander of the naval strike ...

Experts question U.S. finding on Gulf tanker incident

MANAMA (Reuters) - Some military experts in the Gulf are skeptical about a U.S. statement that militants staged a mystery attack on a Japanese tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in July and are seeking more information about the incident.The strike ...
US Navy ship comes to the aid of stranded Iranian sailors in the Persian GulfA U.S. naval ship came to the aid of two stranded Iranian sailors in the early hours of the morning Thursday in the Persian Gulf, providing food ...
US aircraft carrier rescues Iranian fishermen in Arabian Sea; Navy says Iranians are fineThe U.S. Navy says eight Iranian fishermen have been rescued by an American aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea and have been transferred to an Iranian ship.The ...
<div><p>The US navy has ended the search for an aviator who went missing after a radar aircraft crashed into the Arabian Sea and has declared him to be deceased, the US Fifth Fleet said on Saturday.</p><p>"After an ...
<div><p>A US warship intercepted suspected Somali pirates and sunk their "mother ship" after they attacked an oil tanker off the Seychelles, the US navy's Fifth Fleet said on Friday.</p><p>It said the Sierra Leone-flagged tanker MV Evita ...
<div><p>The US Fifth Fleet said it kept searching on Thursday for a crew member of a US Navy radar plane that crashed in the Arabian Sea the day before while supporting operations in Afghanistan.</p><p>"Our resolve and hope ...