Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that three Australian defence personnel were on board a United States submarine that sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo

Tensions in the Persian Gulf have risen sharply. Iranian forces have blocked 38 Indian commercial vessels from continuing their journey. Iran has accused India of helping the United States locate and destroy a major Iranian naval ship.

A second Iranian ship has entered Sri Lankan territorial waters just a day after an American submarine torpedoed a vessel and killed more than 80 people, Sri Lankan officials have said. Sri Lanka is not allowing the ship to dock but is providing some humanitarian assistance,

Pete Hegseth did not name the ship - but earlier, the Sri Lankan navy said around 140 people were missing after the Iris Dena went down off the coast of Galle.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters after Sri Lanka’s Navy said it rescued more than two dozen people from an Iranian vessel that was sunk off its shoreline.

IRIS Dena was one of Iran’s newest combat ships, and had 180 personnel on board when the submarine attacked. Reports of the Dena being in distress first emerged overnight between Mar. 3 and Mar. 4, 2026,

Sri Lanka has taken control of the Iranian vessel IRIS Bushehr after it requested assistance, following the sinking of another Iranian warship by a U.S. submarine, escalating tensions in the region.

(Fixes typo in headline) SYDNEY, March 6 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that three Australian defence personnel were on board a United States submarine that sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo in the Indian Ocean,

An unidentified US submarine torpedoed and sunk the IRIS Dena, an Iranian Navy frigate, off the coast of Sri Lanka on Tuesday.