US forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and near Kharg Island after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted a US Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the past two days.

US forces disabled and destroyed three Iranian-linked crude tankers on September 5 after IRGC missile strikes on two US Navy warships near Iran.

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