🔻Reports of an attack on an Iraqi oil tanker Reports from Iraq indicate that a tanker flying the flag of Panama, carrying two million barrels of Iraq’s heavy fuel oil, was targeted on Wednesday in the country’s territorial waters by a drone. Reuters, citing officials at an Iraqi port, reported that the country’s rescue and salvage boats have put out a fire on the New Andros tanker. No further details about the attack have been released so far. So far, there have been no reports of casualties. Earlier, a British maritime body that monitors shipping reported that several vessels in the Persian Gulf region had caught fire. The report is published after Iran said it had attacked 20 ships that had tried to transit the Strait of Hormuz.