Here’s What You Need to Remember: After the reborn Iraqi navy took over oil-terminal protection in the mid-2000s, the Cyclones shifted to more general missions in the waters separating Iraq and Iran.

MANAMA, Bahrain — The Navy’s use of a drone boat to fire missiles during a recent exercise in the Persian Gulf is a marker of more to come, the commander of America’s naval test unit in the Middle ...

Often uneven and shaky, the video condenses what Navy officials have said was a 20-minute or so clash early Sunday between three Navy warships and five Iranian fast boats. It ends with a blank screen, ...