[Ha'aretz] Anshel Pfeffer and Amos Harel - Israeli Navy special forces took control of an arms-laden freighter 100 miles off the coast of Israel, not far from Cyprus, and brought it to the Israeli port of Ashdod, the IDF said Wednesday. The Antigua-flagged ship set out from Iran and later docked in Yemen and Sudan before sailing through the Suez Canal on its way to Syria. Soldiers who boarded the ship discovered a large cache of arms and ammunition.
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