President Donald Trump threatened strikes on Iranian civilian targets as the United States resumed its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran fired on US bases in the region, sharply widening a confrontation that days ago centred on passage tolls.
Donald Trump says he has reinstated a US blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will bill ships for safe passage, days after fresh strikes and an Iranian attack on a vessel in the waterway.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they struck US bases in multiple Middle Eastern countries in retaliation for American attacks, as Washington reported degrading Tehran's capacity to hit Hormuz shipping and Britain proscribed the IRGC.
President Trump said the US will 'keep' and 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz after overnight airstrikes on Iran, turning a weekend exchange of fire into an open contest over the passage that carries a large share of the world's seaborne oil.
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.
Volodymyr Zelensky's cabinet reshuffle was already reshaping Kyiv's wartime strategy. Then Lindsey Graham, the sanctions bill's chief architect in the Senate, died hours after his last visit to the Ukrainian capital.
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.
The Justice Department has subpoenaed four New York Times journalists to testify before a Manhattan grand jury over their reporting on Air Force One security gaps, in a move the paper's lawyer calls an affront to press freedom — and one allies are watching as a signal of how far Washington will go to police unfavorable coverage.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says new US sanctions targeting a financier linked to Iran's Supreme Leader and Iran's shadow exchange houses violate the no-new-sanctions clause of the June 17 ceasefire memorandum, even as fighting itself has quieted since last week's strikes over Strait of Hormuz ship attacks.
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.
The US-Iran ceasefire framework announced on June 15 promised an end to fighting on every front, including Lebanon. A week on, Hizballah's brinkmanship, jittery Gulf capitals, a slump in Hormuz shipping traffic and dueling claims about who actually won all point toward a truce that is thinner than the headline suggests.
At back-to-back UN Security Council sessions, the Baltic states and Ukraine pressed for a formal ceasefire resolution while the US condemned Russia's destruction of Ukrainian homes and heritage sites. The push highlights the gap between rhetorical unity and the veto that keeps any binding text out of reach.