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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.
On 15 July 2026, Washington escalated the five-month conflict by formally re-imposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports and launching two separate waves of precision strikes—morning and afternoon—against missile, drone and coastal-radar sites from Greater Tunb Island to Ahvaz.
On 17 July 2026 Washington widened its six-night bombing run, destroying key bridges and a surveillance tower at Chabahar port while Iran answered with missiles on U.S.-linked bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Jordan, ending any pretense of last month’s cease-fire.
Between 6–15 July 2026, Kyiv’s new drone forces claimed hits on 116 Russian vessels, compelling Moscow on 14 July to close both the Kerch Strait and Don-Azov Canal—choking a corridor that carries roughly one-quarter of Russia’s wheat exports.
On 15 July 2026 Washington restarted large-scale strikes and a naval blockade on Iran, but President Trump’s headline 20 % transit fee for ships in the Strait of Hormuz was announced Monday and scrapped less than 24 hours later after markets and allies balked.
On 15-16 July 2026 President Donald Trump warned Tehran he will hit Iranian bridges and power plants next week and, the day prior, ordered CENTCOM to resume a full naval blockade after four straight days of U.S. air- and sea-launched attacks.
In a July 14 Fox News interview, President Donald Trump said U.S. air operations will escalate next week to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges unless Tehran resumes stalled negotiations, marking a declared shift from maritime raids to crippling national infrastructure.
On 13 July 2026 the White House formally informed Congress the U.S. is now at war with Iran, moments after U.S. forces struck 170 Iranian sites and reinstated a naval blockade and 20 % shipping toll in the Strait of Hormuz, effectively scrapping the June cease-fire and any immediate hope of a nuclear deal.
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