Iran claims strikes on ships in Strait of Hormuz and U.S. base in Kuwait

13m ago Iran says it struck two tankers under U.S. "aerial escort" in the Strait of Hormuz Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps said Friday that it had hit two tankers trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz under an "aerial escort" of the U.S. military.The IRGC said the "non-compliant oil tankers … were struck and stopped, while four other oil tankers quickly changed course and returned to their previous locations."The U.S. military's Central Command said Thursday it had redirected 24 commercial vessels since restarting a blockade on Iranian ports earlier this month, up from 20 vessels a day earlier. 13m ago Iran receives bodies of Revolutionary Guards killed in U.S.-Saudi strikes in Iraq Iranian state media said Friday that the bodies of five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed in joint U.S.-Saudi strikes in Iraq earlier this week had been returned.The United States and Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday they had struck Iran-backed militants in Iraq in response to recent attacks on the Gulf kingdom. A funeral ceremony is held at the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf, Iraq, on July 30, 2026, for members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces and Iran's Is...