Nigeria, March 2 -- US President Donald Trump has announced that US forces have sunk nine Iranian Navy ships.

Mr Trump made the announcement in a post on Facebook on Sunday.

"I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, some of them relatively large and important. We are going after the rest - They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea, also! In a different attack, we largely destroyed their Naval Headquarters. Other than that, their Navy is doing very well! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP," the American leader wrote.

Earlier, the US Central Command announced that it had sunk an Iranian ship in the Gulf of Oman.

Iran had earlier announced that four of its ballistic missiles hit the US aircraft ca...