Middle East

The US and Iran traded intense barrages of strikes on Wednesday as both sides escalated their rhetoric, with no immediate off-ramp evident.

Iran has threatened to block more key trade routes across the Middle East as the US launches a fresh round of strikes against military targets and Donald Trump issues a stern warning if a deal isn’t settled.

The threats from Tehran came as the US intensified its airstrike campaign on Wednesday, pushing the region back towards all-out war.

The president is accustomed to forcing other countries to bend to his will. But he is struggling to come up with a strategy to extract Iranian concessions as the cease-fire he brokered collapses.

Shipping industry still waiting for a strait answer as President Donald Trump changes fee proposal to only guaranteeing safe passage to vessels from states that agree to invest in the United States

The Economist: One reason prices have not risen further is that oil markets still deem it likely that, with mid-term elections four months away, Donald Trump will cave.

Donald Trump has abandoned plans to impose a 20 per cent levy on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz as the US fires more strikes against Iran and a blockade on Iranian shipping comes into effect.

WASHINGTON POST: The deal that the United States and Iran struck last month to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate over Tehran’s nuclear program was merely ‘a test’, US President Donald Trump said.

The US Navy has revealed when it will begin enforcing a naval blockade on Iranian shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as President Donald Trump declares the US will carry out more strikes.

US President Donald Trump says the US is ‘reinstating’ its blockade in the Strait of Hormuz and will charge ships for safe passage.

A fragile ceasefire has unravelled into fresh chaos in the Strait of Hormuz, as a controversial Trump-brokered deal is blamed for handing Iran sweeping control over one of the world’s most critical oil routes.

Tony Burke has responded to allegations that the last so-called ‘ISIS bride’ was an enforcer of Sharia law at camps in Syria.

Iranian media have reported further explosions on the country's southern coast beside the Strait of Hormuz following a wave of US strikes.

Fresh US strikes have escalated tensions in the Middle East after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed following an attack on a commercial vessel.