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13 weeks 2 days ago - Syria

Two Iranian naval ships returned from Syria through the Suez Canal on Tuesday, a Suez Canal source said.

The ships entered the canal from the Mediterranean Sea early in the morning, heading south towards the Red Sea, and were expected to leave the canal on Tuesday afternoon, the source said.

The ships had docked at the Syrian port of Tartous, in a show of support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a regional ally of Iran. [Reuters]

Tags iran, Red Sea, reuters, ships, Suez canal
13 weeks 6 days ago - Syria

Reuters news agency has reported that two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watching by Israel.

"Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez Canal (on Thursday) following permission from the Egyptian armed forces," a source in the canal authority said on Friday.

The destroyer and a supply ship could be on their way to the Syrian coast, the source added. Iran and Syria agreed to cooperate on naval training a year ago, and Tehran has no naval agreement with any other country in the region.

- Reuters

Tags iran, Suez canal
45 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Egyptian demonstrators in the Suez Canal city of Suez detained four US nationals and an Egyptian translator on Monday and handed them over to military police, military sources said.

They said the military police were questioning the four to find out why they were in the area of the Suez Canal.

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