US navy stops ship carrying ‘explosive precursor’ from Iran
The US navy said Sunday it had stopped a ship carrying 40 tons of a fertilizer that can be used to make explosives as it traveled from Iran along a route previously used to smuggle weapons to Yemen's Houthi rebels.Lebanon seizes dangerous fertilizer in country’s east
Ammonium nitrate is an odourless crystalline substance commonly used as a fertiliser that has been the cause of numerous industrial explosions




