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The United States has expanded its air campaign against Iran for a ninth consecutive day, while Tehran and its allies strike across the Gulf and threaten both the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea shipping.
At the same time, Ukraine has sent hundreds of drones toward Moscow after another deadly Russian assault on Odesa, deepening a cycle of retaliation that now reaches capitals, ports and civilian trade routes.
Iran-aligned Houthi forces announced a blockade of Saudi ports as the United States struck Iran for a ninth straight day, widening the conflict across two of the world’s most important shipping corridors.
A new proposal would pause the fighting long enough to try to restore last month’s interim agreement, even as attacks continue across Iran and the Gulf.
Tehran attacked American allies in the Gulf after another round of U.S. bombing, raising fears that the conflict is becoming a broader regional war.
The overnight assault injured people and struck infrastructure around the Russian capital, following major Russian missile attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
Fresh attacks around Odesa killed people on land and aboard a commercial vessel, underscoring the growing danger to Black Sea shipping and global food routes.
Russian officials said ten people were wounded and buildings were set ablaze during one of Ukraine’s largest drone operations against the capital region.
Even as crude prices retreat from their wartime peak, damaged and constrained refineries are tightening supplies of gasoline and diesel worldwide.
Federal forces are confronting mining settlements blamed for severe environmental destruction and violence in protected Amazonian territory.
Houthi blockade widens the U.S.–Iran war.
Mediators offer a 10-day ceasefire.
Kuwait and Bahrain come under attack.
More than 400 drones target Moscow.
Odesa attacks threaten grain shipping.
Refining shortages pressure fuel markets.
The recurring pattern is now unmistakable: each side claims that one more barrage will weaken the other, restore deterrence or improve its bargaining position. Yet the attacks keep multiplying, the geography of war keeps expanding, and the promised decisive result remains out of reach. Military power is being expended at enormous cost while the political objectives grow less clear.