While US and Iran seem not interested in full-scale war it’s beginning to appear diplomacy will coexist with continued strategic competition
A US serviceman was killed in action in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone on Saturday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Sunday.
Panicky Iran announces tankers on fire in Strait of Hormuz as Houthis impose Saudi naval blockade
Bab el-Mandeb is a narrow waterway linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden through which Saudi oil exports and a substantial share of global shipping pass. Any serious interference at Bab el-Mandeb, coming after months of disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, would raise the prospect that both of the region’s major oil export routes could be shut simultaneously.