The US Navy is unlikely to deploy a third aircraft carrier to support Operation Epic Fury, but it could relieve USS Gerald R. Ford, which has seen its deployment extended
Donald Trump has described "major combat operations", with explosions heard across Iran.
Multiple explosions heard in Tehran, elsewhere, as Israel launches attacks on Iran with US help.
Iran-backed Hezbollah says it launched rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
US issues 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to buy Russian oil; IDF says it is striking Dahiya neighborhood in southern suburbs of Beirut
Move to allow shipments already at sea comes amid a supply crisis and after US president says he does not ‘want to do a ceasefire’; IDF says it is attacking regime targets in Tehran after missiles fired at Israel from Iran
Officials in New Delhi say that an Iranian warship that was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters in the Indian Ocean on its way home.
Donald Trump says he would only accept Tehran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as war continues to expand; Israel launches huge attacks on Iran and Lebanon
The USNS Big Horn suffered more than $20 million in damage after the Middle East grounding, a command investigation reveals.
The Pentagon has dramatically reduced the number of ships it had in the Caribbean ahead of the Maduro raid, moving vessels toward the Middle East.
Trump tells Iran to reopen strait to shipping or face destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launches its most destructive attack yet on Israel
Israeli prime minister says you can’t ‘do revolutions from the air’ and that ‘there has to be a ground component as well’ amid growing signs of tensions between Israel and US
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) may spend 11 months deployed, which could take a toll on the aircraft carrier and even the crew
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to “evaporate” in Gaza, Al Jazeera Investigation finds.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US-Israel war on Iran ‘should never have happened’ as strikes continue to hit Tehran and Beirut
US president says he is extending deadline for strait of Hormuz to reopen to 6 April; Houthis tell Lloyd’s List ‘no reason’ to prevent Saudi oil using Red Sea route
Canadian PM says the US-Israeli strikes on Iran were ‘inconsistent with international law’ but that his country ‘will stand by our allies’. Follow the latest news
Iran has named hardliner Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader; Donald Trump says oil price spike ‘a small price to pay’ as markets tumble
Fatih Birol says world is losing 11m barrels of oil per day, more than the 1973 and 1979 energy shocks combined; IRGC threatens to completely close strait of Hormuz if Trump acts on infrastructure threats
Iran’s police chief says protesters will be treated as ‘enemies’ and that security forces remain stationed in the streets
Trump says attacks on Iran will continue until all of his objectives are met, as Tehran keeps up raids on US assets.
US president says Khamenei’s death is ‘justice for the people of Iran’ as he repeats call for regime change
US central command says aircraft lost in ‘friendly airspace’, adding that the crash was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire
Iran has kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf nations, including a strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia that wounded US service members
Kuwait says fire broke out after Iranian attack on giant tanker and warns of possible oil spill in surrounding waters
US president tells Financial Times his ‘preference would be to take the oil’ but that ‘some stupid people back in the US say: “why are you doing that?”’
US-Israel attacks on Iran continue as Israeli forces blow up the Qasimiyah Bridge in south Lebanon.
Iranian official describes US’s 15-point plan as ‘maximalist’ as state television outlines five conditions for peace.
US military says strikes in the first 24 hours was nearly double the scale of the 2003 ‘shock-and-awe’ operation in Iraq; US president orders insurance to be provided for shipping in crucial waterway
Iran strikes energy infrastructure across the Gulf as IRGC announces closure of Strait of Hormuz.
US president claims Iranian negotiators fear being killed by their own side; Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US and Iran ‘signalling a willingness to negotiate’
Iran’s military and political leaders pledge allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei as US-Israeli attacks continue.
US president said he did not want to make a deal with Iran yet, while claiming that he might hit Kharg Island again ‘just for fun’
US-Israeli strikes on Iran continue despite claim of talks, with at least 12 killed, 28 wounded in one attack on Tehran.
Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad’ future if US allies fail to assist in opening the vital oil route; Israel says thousands of targets in Iran remain – follow it live
Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.
US-Israeli strikes on Tehran continue as Iranian counterattacks target Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Intense strikes target central Tehran as US president says ‘powerful’ bombing raid hit Iranian forces on Kharg Island.
US and Israel continue to pound Iran and Lebanon, as Tehran’s counterstrikes disrupt oil flows in the Middle East.
Iranian missiles, drones target Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan as Trump says Iran has ‘chance to make a deal’.
Iran Guards said they fired missiles at Israel and US forces in bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain; crude oil prices fall sharply in early trading
About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the war with Iran.
US-Israeli attacks on Iran continue as Israel’s bombing of Lebanon kills at least 217 people, injures almost 800.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard calls Trump a ‘deceitful American president’, accuses him of ‘contradictory behaviour’.
US and Israel bombard Iran as Israeli forces hammer Lebanon and the widening conflict causes energy prices to spike.
Trump also threatens to hit island’s oil infrastructure if Tehran does not allow passage for ships via Strait of Hormuz
Israeli PM adds that it will not be an ‘endless war’; Israeli military lists dozens of locations in Lebanon that could be targeted – follow the latest news
Ali Larijhani killed in an Israeli strike; Israeli military calls for evacuations in central Beirut as it targets Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah
Antiwar protesters rally in Tel Aviv and US cities, as attacks kill a family of four in Iran’s Bushehr province.
Iranian Red Crescent says more than 92,600 civilian units were damaged across the country in US-Israeli attacks.
