Iran launched a new round of missile attacks, and United States and Saudi Arabian forces struck Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq, according to news reports.
Saudi Arabia has for the first time taken part directly in air strikes alongside the United States, hitting an Iraqi militant alliance linked to Iran on July 29.
Days after signs Iran's conflict with the US was cooling, fighting flared again on three fronts: Iran fired a missile attack on US forces, which the US says it intercepted; US and Saudi jets bombed Iran-backed militants in Iraq who had launched drone attacks; and Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage carrying much of the world's oil.
The U.S. Senate advanced a Russia and Iran sanctions bill named for the late Senator Lindsey Graham by an 86-vote margin, turning a negotiated deal into a concrete legislative step toward final passage.
Oman has given Iran a plan, backed by other Gulf countries, to jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that much of the world's oil ships through.
The US Senate is holding an actual floor vote on a sanctions bill that could impose tariffs up to 500 percent on countries still buying Russian or Iranian oil.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since US and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February set off new Middle East fighting.
The Pentagon, the US military's headquarters, is now planning its support for Ukraine as far ahead as 2029.
In one week, four governments took steps to make their military threats harder to ignore.
Two officials in the region told the Associated Press that mediators trying to stop the war in Iran are making real progress.
After nearly two weeks of nightly strikes, the US guns have gone quiet over Iran. The reported reason isn't diplomacy — it's dwindling stockpiles of interceptor missiles. Here's why a lull built on ammunition math is so easy to break.
Deterrence has always been a belief, not a weapon. This week, in Tehran, Kyiv, Tokyo and along the Korean border, that belief started to fail in the same place at once.