Drone attack caused fire on gas ships at Mediterranean port, Egypt says
The Damietta attack came hours after the US and Saudi Arabia carried out joint air strikes on Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq that they said had attacked Saudi oil facilities with drones 30 times in recent days at the direction of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
However, Iranian forces and Iranian-backed armed groups have carried out similar attacks on tankers in the Gulf and Red Sea as well as energy infrastructure in several Arab states during the US and Israel's war with Iran, disrupting global trade and causing oil prices to soar.
On Wednesday night, the US carried out what it described as a "heavy wave of strikes" on Iran in response to an attempted "surprise" missile attack on US military facilities in Jordan.
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