US Central Command completed a thirteenth consecutive night of strikes on Iran as the Houthis attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. Brent crude jumped past $100 a barrel, only one tanker crossed the Strait of Hormuz in a day, and Trump said he is close to a decision on something bigger.
Russia fired 351 drones and 68 missiles at Ukraine, killing at least 20 people in the second mass strike on Kyiv in four days. The alarming detail: every one of the 29 ballistic missiles hit its target. Ukraine is out of interceptors, and Zelenskyy is heading to the NATO summit to ask for more.
Days after a fragile US-Iran ceasefire, the two sides traded strikes over the weekend and are now openly contradicting each other about whether they are even talking. Trump says a meeting is happening in Qatar. Iran says there is no such meeting planned. The gap is the danger.
Ukrainian forces struck the Orenburg gas processing plant, one of the largest in the world, plus two Russian satellite communications centers. The targets sit more than 750 miles from the front. The war’s geography has changed.
The US and Iran signed a ceasefire on June 17. Eight days later, Israel is designating Iran’s central bank as a terrorist organization, the IDF is shooting down Houthi drones, and Trump is claiming inspections Tehran says never happened.
Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s chief negotiator agreed to a 60-day roadmap in Switzerland to reach a final deal. It took more than 10 hours and survived a mid-session threat from Trump. Here is what happened.