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On 20 July 2026 Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement declared an immediate maritime embargo on Saudi ships traversing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, directly threatening Red Sea oil traffic and injecting a fresh supply-shock risk into already war-disrupted energy markets.
Within 24 hours on 19–20 July 2026, three Ukrainian drone attacks hit the tankers ASIA, NISSOS IOS and NELSA while they were taking on Kazakh crude at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s Black Sea terminal, forcing CPC to suspend oil loadings twice in as many days.
Following the 17 July killing of two American soldiers in Jordan, U.S. forces overnight 18-19 July launched a new wave of air- and sea-launched strikes on southern Iranian IRGC sites to erode Tehran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz.
On 19 July 2026 Tehran accused Washington of firing multiple projectiles at the Darkhovin power-plant site at 03:39 a.m., prompting the IAEA to open an investigation while confirming the unfinished facility held no nuclear material.
Between 17–18 July 2026 the United States ended a seventh consecutive night of air-raids that demolished at least five key bridges in southern Iran, and Iran replied hours later with missiles and drones that set a major Kuwaiti power–desalination complex ablaze and triggered intercepts across Bahrain, Qatar and Jordan.
Iran’s 17 July drone-missile salvo that killed two U.S. soldiers at Jordan’s Al-Azraq base triggered Washington’s seventh and eighth consecutive nights of air-raids inside Iran on 19 July, effectively scrapping last month’s short-lived cease-fire deal.
Caracas raised the official June-24 earthquake death count to 5,069 and, on the same day, drew US$346 million from its previously frozen IMF reserve tranche to fund emergency rebuilding.
In the war’s sixth straight night of action on 17 July 2026, U.S. aircraft, drones and warships bombed at least five bridges, an airport and a port-control tower in southern Iran, while Iran fired missiles that ignited Kuwait’s key power-and-desalination complex, marking the first large-scale attacks on each other’s civilian infrastructure since the brief June cease-fire collapsed.
On 18 Jul 2026 Washington expanded its week-long air campaign to destroy bridges, power and port facilities inside Iran while Tehran fired missiles at US bases in Gulf states, ending any pretense of a cease-fire and pushing the Hormuz showdown into open blockade warfare.
On 17–18 July, Venezuela’s interim government lifted the official June-24 earthquake death count past 5,000 and, for the first time since IMF relations were severed in 2019, drew US$346 million from its SDR reserves to fund reconstruction.
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