The U.S. said Wednesday that it launched new airstrikes on Iran and took out four drones even as a broader ceasefire still holds in the nearly three-month old conflict. The airstrikes struck a military site along the southern coast of Iran that was deemed a threat to American forces and commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz,

President Donald Trump insists a peace deal is close on this 88th day of the Iran war, but Iran on Tuesday denounced U.S. strikes a day earlier as a sign of “bad faith and unreliability” as negotiatio

Oil prices have jumped after the US carried out new attacks on Iran, targeting a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city. The US Central Command (Centcom) said its forces also shot down four Iranian drones "that posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz".

The military activity comes as President Donald Trump told his cabinet members Iran was "negotiating on fumes."

The attacks in southern Iran prompted Tehran to warn that it would "leave no act of hostility unanswered," complicating negotiations to end the war.

Tehran would restore shipping through the Strait of ⁠Hormuz ⁠to pre-war levels within a month in a ⁠framework deal with the U.S. to also include withdrawing U.S. forces from Iran's vicinity, Iranian state television reported on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has signaled an imminent end to the war in Iran — but that messaging is bumping up against a reality of escalating tensions in the wake of renewed U.S. strikes last night. A deal could take “a few more days,

The U.S. military launched new strikes on Iran on Monday, threatening to shatter a 7-week ceasefire and derailing peace negotiations in Qatar.