What we know about the Gulf tanker attacks

Suspected attacks left two tankers in flames in the Gulf of Oman, bumping up oil prices and further raising regional tensions triggered by a bitter US-Iran standoff. The strikes on Thursday follow last month's sabotage attacks on four ships off the United Arab Emirates that Washington blamed on Tehran. In the early daylight hours of Thursday, two vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz towards the Indian Ocean caught fire.

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