Iranian media reported that US strikes hit bridges, rail and airport infrastructure, while CENTCOM said it targeted military capabilities. Retaliatory attacks are pulling Gulf states deeper into the crisis.
The United States has intensified strikes on Iran and restored a naval blockade as Tehran retaliates across the Gulf. The confrontation threatens wider war and renewed disruption to global energy supplies.
The US Treasury on 10 July sanctioned Dubai-based Iranian banker Ali Ansari, alleging he invested embezzled Iranian funds in property across Europe — including through Luxembourg-registered holding companies — for the benefit of supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guard. Ansari is not on the EU sanctions list, leaving Luxembourg under no EU-law obligation to freeze his assets; its authorities have not commented.
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on 12 July that Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko will be replaced and Ukraine's cabinet renewed, saying the country is "changing its political strategy". Naftogaz chief Serhii Koretskyi is seen as the frontrunner to succeed her, while Svyrydenko is expected to become ambassador to Washington. Parliament must approve the change, with votes possible within days.
Mexico says it will file criminal complaints with US state and federal prosecutors, sue detention operators GEO Group and CoreCivic, and petition international bodies over the deaths of 17 Mexicans in ICE custody or enforcement operations.
Oman, Qatar and Pakistan raced this weekend to revive US-Iran diplomacy after Donald Trump declared the ceasefire over following two nights of American strikes, with control of the Strait of Hormuz the central dispute.
The United States and Iran concluded two days of indirect, Qatari- and Pakistani-mediated talks in Doha on 2 July without resolving control of the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for about a quarter of seaborne oil. The round focused on maritime traffic and unfreezing Iranian funds under June's Islamabad Memorandum. Oil fell to four-month lows, and the next round awaits the six-day funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei consolidates power.
Iran began six days of funeral ceremonies for Ali Khamenei on 3 July, four months after the supreme leader was assassinated in the opening hours of the US–Israeli war. Officials expect crowds in the tens of millions before his burial in Mashhad on 9 July, while his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei — chosen by the Assembly of Experts in March — has yet to appear in public. US–Iran talks in Doha are paused for the funeral, and oil prices have fallen back to near pre-war levels.
The World Bank has extended its Climate Change Action Plan but scrapped its explicit climate-finance targets, retiring the goal of directing 45% of annual financing to climate projects after sustained pressure from the Trump administration and over the objections of European and developing-country shareholders.
The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's executive order ending automatic citizenship for many US-born children, ruling 6-3 that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship.
A senior US official says Washington and Tehran have agreed to stop attacking each other and return to talks in Doha on 30 June, a de-escalation that has steadied oil prices and drawn cautious EU welcome.
Israel and Lebanon, still technically at war, signed a US-mediated framework on 26 June pledging to end their conflict through a sequenced, conditional process. Israel will hand two pilot zones to the Lebanese army once Hezbollah is disarmed there, but keeps its security zone and sets no timetable. Beirut called it a first step; Hezbollah rejected it.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called for independent investigations into a rising toll of deaths in US immigration detention, putting the system's compliance with international human-rights norms under scrutiny.
Lebanon, Israel and the United States signed a trilateral framework agreement in Washington on 26 June 2026, setting out a sequenced process to disarm Hezbollah and eventually withdraw Israeli forces. Hours later Hezbollah, excluded from the talks, rejected the deal, exposing the framework's central weakness.
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that federal courts cannot review the Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria, clearing the way to strip protections from more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,000 Syrians.
The first round of formal U.S.-Iran post-ceasefire talks ended at the Bürgenstock resort with a road map toward a final deal in 60 days, sending oil lower and equities higher even as the enrichment dispute remained unresolved.