While a peace deal between the US and Iran remains elusive, Israel has deepened its offensive into southern Lebanon.
IRGC says it targeted a base used by US forces after US attacks on site near Bandar Abbas.
The US strikes near Bandar Abbas as tensions rise in the Strait of Hormuz; Iran reports no casualties or damage.
President Masoud Pezeshkian praised Iran’s military capabilities after the US carried out ‘self-defence’ strikes on Iran
An explosion damaged a tanker close to its waterline as it sailed off Oman, a marine monitor said on Tuesday, as tensions remained high around the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. “The crew and vessel are safe, although the master reports some bunker fuel has discharged into the sea,” UK Maritime Trade Operations said. The incident, in the Gulf of Oman about 60 nautical miles east of Muscat, was an “external explosion”, UKMTO added, without detailing the cause of the blast. Iran has been laying mines...
Before the US strikes on targets in southern Iran, Tehran said a deal with Washington was not imminent.
The US military says it has launched new strikes on southern Iran, targeting Iranian missile sites and boats.
US forces attacked missile sites in southern Iran and boats trying to lay mines on Monday, US Central Command said, as top Iranian negotiators arrived in Doha for talks to end the war. “US forces conducted self-defence strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” Tim Hawkins, a US Central Command spokesman, said in a statement. It gave no details of the attacks and said only that the targets included missile launch sites and boats trying to “emplace...