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An oil tanker carrying roughly 2 million barrels of Iraqi fuel oil was struck by a drone in Iraqi territorial waters Wednesday morning, sparking a fire aboard the vessel. The Panama-flagged New Andros was carrying a crew of 22, with no casualties reported. The attack came as multiple merchant vessels reported being struck in the Gulf and Gulf of Oman amid the rapidly escalating U.S.-Iran confrontation.