The US military escorted 40 commercial vessels carrying 18 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, marking a wartime high as Iran and the US exchanged a new round strikes on Tuesday, two US officials familiar with the operations told CNN.

With pipeline shipments from Saudi Arabia and the UAE that make it possible to bypass the Strait of Hormuz taken into account, oil exports from the region exceeded pre-war levels…

The US military escorted 40 commercial vessels carrying 18 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, marking a wartime high as Iran and the US exchanged a new round…