Vaughn Cockayne

The Trump administration is set to announce and sign a new civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia Wednesday that could allow the kingdom to begin enriching its own fuel for reactors, according to reports.

Chances of a peace deal between Iran and the U.S. seemed especially distant on Wednesday after President Trump repeated his threats to strike at civilian targets there and Tehran said it would retaliate.

Iran on Wednesday sharply criticized the joint U.S.-Saudi airstrikes against its allied militias in Iraq.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday announced sanctions on two entities used by Iran to control traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

Newly released satellite images appear to confirm Iran’s claim that it struck two Amazon Web Services data centers in Bahrain earlier in July.

U.S. Central Command, which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, rejected Iranian assertions that its forces destroyed three F-35 fighter jets in Jordan this week.

The Iran war seemed to expand again Thursday after Egypt confirmed that an unidentified drone was responsible for a fire at the Mediterranean port of Damietta and the U.S. continued to attack military and intelligence targets in Iran.

Iran said Monday it is not in talks with the U.S. over control of the Strait of Hormuz, even as President Trump insists that final negotiations could begin as soon as this afternoon.

President Trump on Monday said new negotiations with Iran will be the Islamic republic’s “last chance” to get a decent deal and attacked the regime for what he said were “duplicitious” disavowals of the president’s earlier assertions that a peace deal between the two countries could happen soon.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said its mediators are working to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran war, even as another ship came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz.