U.S. military forces boarded a crude oil tanker “without incident” overnight in the Indian Ocean after pursuing it from the Caribbean, the Pentagon stated on Feb. 9, accusing the vessel of breaching a U.S.-enforced quarantine.
The War Department stated in a post on X that “military forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Aquila II” in the Indian Ocean after tracking it in response to the Trump administration’s “established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.”
