Washington — President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a US navy ship had “destroyed” an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the ship, in the latest incident to stir tensions in the Gulf.
Trump told an event in the White House that the drone had flown to within 1,000m of the USS Boxer and had ignored “multiple calls to stand down”...
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