The attacks come as Iran and the U.S. both vie for control of the strait through which a fifth of all traded crude oil and natural gas once passed in peacetime. The price of bench

The US conducted new strikes hours after a major air assault on Iran. Tehran targeted Gulf nations over the weekend.

The U.S. military’s official tally of deaths in the Iran war has risen to 14 service members, with the death of a Navy pilot in a helicopter crash in early July in the Arabian Sea. The number of wounded troops from the conflict also has grown to more than 400 as of Monday.

The Middle East conflict has entered another dangerous phase after Iran announced it had once again closed the Strait of Hormuz and launched missile and drone attacks on US military facilities in Bahrain,

By Enas Alashray, Elwely Elwelly, Tala Ramadan and Katharine Jackson CAIRO/DUBAI/WASHINGTON, , July 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. air base in Jordan was targeted by Iranian ballistic missiles on Tuesday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said,

UAE says Iranian cruise missiles hit two oil tankers in strait, killing a crew member and wounding eight

President Donald Trump accused The New York Times of wanting the U.S. to lose its war with Iran and threatened imminent strikes on Pickaxe Mountain near Natanz.

Donald Trump has claimed the US and Iran agreed a new deal yesterday, in which Tehran "gave up everything". He accuses the Iranians of breaking that agreement "within an hour" when a drone attacked a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.