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Iran has extended its retaliatory strikes to Oman, widening a Gulf-wide escalation as US-Iran talks to end the war remain unresolved and the Strait of Hormuz standoff resets to square one.
Six US soldiers died in a drone strike on Kuwait's Port Shuaiba as the United States bombed targets inside Iran and Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz again — a conflict now grounding Gulf aviation and rattling global markets.
Wildfires in Spain's Andalusia region have killed 12 people, with more than twenty still missing, according to <a href="https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/spanelsko-francie-portugalsko-chorvatsko-i-albanie-evropa-se-potyka-s-rozsahlymi_2607110943_vsn">iRozhlas</a>. Firefighters across four other European countries battled major blazes the same week.
The US Central Command has moved 20 warships, including two aircraft carriers, toward Iran, two days after President Trump suggested he could reinstate a naval blockade on Iranian ports, according to the New York Post.
Ukraine says it struck 21 vessels supplying occupied Crimea in three days, triggering fuel sales bans and blackouts on the peninsula — a sharper escalation than the refinery strikes and export bans already rationing fuel across Russia.
President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran over after renewed exchanges of fire, threatening further US strikes. The escalation has driven investors to the dollar and prompted the IMF to cut its 2026 global growth outlook, with the Strait of Hormuz the central chokepoint.
Washington hit Iran with fresh strikes and reimposed oil sanctions after attacks on three ships near the Strait of Hormuz, moves that recouple U.S. security policy and allied energy supply.
The Trump administration revoked Iran's oil sanctions waiver after three tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, testing a fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire and the world's most important oil chokepoint.
At least 18 people, including four police officers, were wounded by explosions in Damascus on Tuesday as French President Emmanuel Macron met Syria's new leadership, according to Syrian and international reports.