U.S. President Donald Trump has called for Iran to pay compensation for decades of deaths and damage, adding a new demand to peace talks as Tehran seeks compensation and sanctions relief before reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had targeted a Saudi ship carrying military equipment in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to the Houthi-run Saba news agency.
The group did not immediately provide details on the extent of the damage or the condition of the vessel. There was no immediate comment from Saudi authorities.
The Bab el-Mandeb, which links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, is one of the world's most important maritime trade routes and has been a frequent flashpoint amid regional tensions.
The U.S. military said it used missiles to disable a Panama-flagged cargo vessel that allegedly ignored repeated warnings and attempted to violate the blockade on Iranian ports.
According to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), a U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles into the engine room of the Vela Nova, disabling the ship's steering capability.
CENTCOM also updated its enforcement figures, saying that as of 11 August, U.S. forces had redirected 55 commercial vessels, disabled three non-compliant ships and boarded two others during operations linked to the blockade.
Around 600,000 barrels per day of Middle East oil production could remain shut in through the end of 2027, the U.S. Energy Information Administration says, even if regional trade patterns return to normal by early next year.
Libya’s National Oil Corporation says a drone struck a diesel storage tank at the Zawiya oil refinery complex on Tuesday, causing a small fire that has since been contained.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei said the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the U.S. ends the war, unfreezes Iranian funds overseas and meets other conditions communicated through mediators.
The ministry said four missiles were fired, including one at rescuers, injuring a Yemeni rescuer.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says a deal with Syria on the future of Moscow’s military bases is an important step that will strengthen ties between the two countries.
Syria and Russia agreed on a plan for the bases at Tartous and Hmeimim after 18 months of talks, with civilian facilities to return to Syrian control and military sites converted into joint training centres within three months.
Three crew members were killed in a suspected Houthi attack on the cargo vessel Tihamah in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to Yemeni sources.
Two Pakistanis and one Indonesian were among those killed. The vessel was hit by an unknown projectile and the crew lost control before Yemeni coastguards approached. The Houthis have not claimed responsibility.
Separately, the container ship Vela Nova was hit by a missile off Pakistan while sailing towards the Gulf of Oman, in what maritime sources described as a suspected U.S. attack. The incidents add to growing disruption on key shipping routes in the region.
Pakistan says the U.S. and Iran are close to reaching an arrangement on peace, Bloomberg News reports.
A rocket attack hit a training camp for Iranian Kurdish opposition groups near Erbil in northern Iraq on Tuesday, with security sources blaming Iran.
No casualties were reported.
The UKMTO says a cargo vessel was hit by an unknown projectile off Mokha, Yemen, resulting in casualties.
Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said negotiations between Oman and Iran are now at an advanced stage, signalling progress in efforts to reach an agreement and ease tensions around the Strait of Hormuz.
“As mediators, we want the Strait of Hormuz reopened as soon as possible,” the official added.
Eurozone government bond yields rose on Tuesday as Brent crude gained 2 per cent to $89.90 a barrel. Germany’s 10-year yield increased 2 basis points to 3.201 per cent, while France’s 30-year yield reached 4.8004 per cent, its highest level since 2008.
A deck cargo ship was attacked on Tuesday by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, killing three of its crew members, two sources from the Yemeni coast guard and two military officials in the government said.
Maritime security sources told Reuters a cargo ship was believed to have been targeted in the Red Sea, but the fate of the crew was unclear.
An Israeli drone targeted ambulance teams on Tuesday while they were evacuating an injured person in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, in the latest violation of a U.S.-mediated framework agreement, Lebanese media said.
The drone shelled ambulance crews from the Islamic Health Authority, Bayt al-Talaba and the Islamic Risala Scout Association as they were transferring a person injured in an earlier strike on a car in the area, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Several ambulances were damaged in the attack, but there were no immediate reports of injuries among paramedics.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Tuesday it received a report of an incident involving a tanker and military forces in the Gulf of Oman.
A criminal court in Damascus on Tuesday sentenced former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after convicting him of premeditated murder, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes against humanity, the SANA news agency reported.
Judge Al-Aryan of the Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus said witness testimony established Assad’s role in the crimes as “the highest decision-maker,” and that he had used state institutions to facilitate their commission.
The court convicted Assad of premeditated murder of multiple victims, including children, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes against humanity, and sentenced him to death in absentia.
Lebanon’s health ministry said on Tuesday that an Israeli drone strike in Nabatieh wounded two civilians. A second strike targeted a rescue team from the Al-Risala Association and damaged an ambulance.
Three crew members have been killed in a Houthi attack on a commercial vessel in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Yemen’s Al-Jumhuriya TV reported on Tuesday.
Bahrain congratulated Pakistan on the trilateral defense pact with Türkiye and Saudi Arabia, a statement from Islamabad's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
The remarks came during a phone call between Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani on Monday.
Al Zayani also expressed his intention to visit Pakistan in the near future.
Dar expressed Pakistan's "firm commitment to promoting dialogue and diplomacy to achieve peace and stability in the region and beyond."
Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said 95 million cubic metres of gas will return to the country’s production cycle by the end of September, according to the Oil Ministry’s SHANA news agency.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that Iran had shown during the conflict that it was a “tough and invincible power”.
Speaking at an event on cooperation between diplomacy and the health sector, Araghchi said foreign officials had told him Iran had “created a miracle” and surprised the world with its ability to withstand the United States.
The International Atomic Energy Agency will soon remove nuclear material stored at a clandestine site in Syria after the Trump administration reached understandings with Syria and Israel, Axios reported on Monday, citing Israeli and U.S. officials.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul urged Iran to engage constructively with the U.S. and regional countries to end the conflict during a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Wadephul said the Strait of Hormuz must be opened “unconditionally” to ensure free and safe navigation for all.
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to six on Monday, compared with a 10-day average of about 11 vessels, shipping data showed, amid fading hopes of a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran.
Four commodity vessels, including two empty oil product tankers, entered the waterway, data from Kpler showed on Tuesday as of 0420 GMT. Two vessels — a small tanker laden with liquefied petroleum gas and another carrying residual fuels — exited the Strait, the data showed.
In pre-war days, about 130 to 140 ships typically transited the strait.
On Monday, 25 vessels transited the Bab el-Mandeb strait on the Red Sea, broadly unchanged when compared with the 10-day average of nearly 24 ships, Kpler data showed.
Three Israeli civilians crossed into Syrian territory from the Mount Hermon area overnight before being located and returned by Israeli troops, the military said on Tuesday.
The three were handed over to police, with authorities warning that such incidents disrupt military operations and could endanger forces in the area.
Oil prices rose on Tuesday as U.S.-Iran negotiations over a peace deal and reopening the Strait of Hormuz remained at an impasse, adding to concerns over inflation and keeping Asian markets cautious.
Brent crude reached $88 a barrel while U.S. crude climbed to $82.45, their highest levels since 31 July, after both gained around 5 per cent on Monday.
Former IRGC commander Hossein Kanani Moghaddam has described the new Pakistan-Saudi Arabia-Türkiye defence agreement as a deterrence measure rather than a direct threat to Iran.
He argued the three countries would be unlikely to intervene if Iran targeted a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia, saying Tehran would consider such an operation an attack on U.S. forces rather than on Saudi Arabia itself.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lacking a strategy to end the war with Iran, saying his approach is endangering U.S. troops and driving up prices for Americans.
“Trump’s leadership is a complete and total failure,” Schumer wrote on X, calling for an end to the conflict.
The Washington Post reported that U.S. President Donald Trump secretly switched to a smaller military aircraft after leaving Ankara last month due to an Iranian threat, despite the White House saying he was travelling aboard Air Force One.
Trump was reportedly transferred via an airport catering truck to an Air Force C-32A, which flew him to Britain as a separate Air Force One aircraft carrying media followed minutes later.
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Iran has reached an understanding with Oman on transit arrangements through the Strait of Hormuz, but the waterway will remain closed until the U.S. fulfils its commitments, a senior Iranian diplomat said on Saturday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused U.S. government and Israel-aligned actors of manipulating energy markets to promote the war with Iran.
Russian strikes on the Kyiv region overnight killed 37 people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Zelenskyy added that the Ukrainian capital was under "virtually nonstop attack" from drones.
At least 37 people were killed after a Russian drone strike hit an ammunition depot in the Kyiv region, triggering powerful secondary explosions President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, vowing to punish suspected negligence in the second such incident in two months.
The death toll from last week's catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet rose to 750 on Sunday, with 3,044 people still missing, as fresh rainfall pushed up river levels and forced rescuers to move to higher ground.
Rescue teams in Nepal, supported by Chinese and Indian experts, worked through the night to reach hundreds of people believed to be trapped inside blocked hydropower project tunnels following last week’s catastrophic Himalayan flood.
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the introduction of the death penalty for people convicted of deliberately setting forest fires, following wildfires that recently killed 12 people across the country.
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