Two US Navy Seals missing off Somalia in mission to intercept Iranian weapons

Navy searches Gulf of Aden for Seals who fell into the water when trying to board vessel carrying Iranian missile parts to Somalia

US Navy ships and aircraft combed areas of the Gulf of Aden for two missing US Navy Seals on Monday as details emerged about their mission to board and take over a vessel carrying components for medium-range Iranian ballistic missiles headed for Somalia, a US defense official said.

Officials have said that the Seal mission was not related to Operation Prosperity Guardian, the ongoing US and international mission to provide protection to commercial vessels in the Red Sea, or the retaliatory strikes that the United States and the United Kingdom have conducted in Yemen over the past two days.