The threat to ships carrying oil in the Middle East is at its worst since the Iran war started, experts have said, after a spate of attacks on another key route in the region. The warning comes after a number of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, an alternative waterway that some tankers had
Yemen’s Houthis say they attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea after the United States launched its 12th consecutive night of strikes against Iran. Iranian state media said two people were killed in Wednesday’s US strikes and that a tanker truck caught fire in an explosion on a mined road in the Strait
Six people were killed in Ukraine following overnight Russian attacks on the Black Sea port of Odessa and the eastern city of Sumy, according to local officials. The governor of the Odessa region, Oleh Kiper, said the “massive” drone and missile attack marked the fifth day Russia has attacked the region. Across the country, three
The United States has launched a series of strikes against Iran in response to attacks on three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The US Central Command (Centcom) said it had launched the attack on Wednesday, “to impose high costs for targeting and attacking commercial vessels manned by innocent people in an international waterway.”
Now, weeks after Iran allowed the partial reopening of the strait – under a ceasefire agreement with the United States that largely holds – the sea is calm once again and the fishermen are returning. One of them, Abdol Rahman, took the BBC across the strait to see up close how the war has affected