The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

U.S. military forces destroyed six Iranian small attack boats threatening commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, according to Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. Central Command.

On May 5, 1945, with Hitler dead and Germany ordering every U-boat to cease operations, one German submarine did the unthinkable. Off the coast of Rhode Island, U-853 remained on station, waiting in ...

The United States has carried out dozens of boat strikes since September against people the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs. By Jin Yu Young The U.S. military said it attacked another ...

The U.S. military launched a strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people, according to U.S. Southern Command. No U.S. military forces were harmed ...

The U.S. is preparing to take on Iran’s fast-attack boats using a playbook it already has tested in another theater — lethal strikes on small vessels tied to drug trafficking networks in the Caribbean ...

GUATEMALA CITY — On Friday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held the first hearing of its kind on the legality of U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean and the harm they are causing ...

U-Boat Worx set some very high expectations for the Super Sub. The Dutch company rather boldly labeled it the world’s fastest and most advanced private submersible before it even hit the seas.

This story has been updated with additional information from U.S. Central Command about the sinking of an IRGCN corvette. An American attack submarine sank an Iranian Navy ship off the coast of Sri ...

Cuba said its military killed four Cubans from the United States who were on a boat that entered its territorial waters Wednesday, which the Interior Ministry called a "foiled armed infiltration." ...

The U.S. struck another alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three people, the military announced Monday afternoon. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

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