Skip linksSkip to Content Live Navigation menuNewsAfricaAsiaUS & CanadaLatin AmericaEuropeAsia PacificMiddle EastExplainedSportOpinionVideoFeaturesEconomyHuman RightsClimate CrisisInvestigationsInteractivesIn PicturesScience & TechnologyPodcastsTravelSponsored Content Live Navigation menuUS-Israel war on IranStrait of HormuzWhat is Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain?Why have strikes resumed?Bodies of EvidenceLive updates, IRGC sets terms to reopen Hormuz as US seeks commitments to end attacks on ships in the waterway.Video Duration 02 minutes 47 seconds 02:47War on Iran accelerates change at Pentagon as US seeks lower-cost weaponsBy Heba Habib and Umut UrasPublished On 9 Aug 2026

Yemen’s Houthis have claimed an attack that caused a fire at a Saudi Aramco oil facility in the Jizan province.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says he hopes the talks with Oman will yield results in the Strait of Hormuz and calls for the country to move beyond state of “neither war nor peace”.