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Aaron BoxermanIsmaeel Naar and Eric Schmitt

Here’s the latest.

The four-week truce in the Middle East faltered on Monday, as the United Arab Emirates said that Iran had launched attacks on its territory, and the U.S. military said it sunk six Iranian military boats.

The Emirati authorities blamed Iran for a drone attack that caused a fire in the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone, the largest oil storage area in the Emirates, in the first such assault since a cease-fire was reached on April 7. In neighboring Oman, two people were injured by an attack in Bukha, near Emirati territory, according to an Omani state news agency, which did not identify the culprit.

U.S. Central Command said it had shot down Iranian missiles and drones aimed at American military and commercial vessels around the Strait of Hormuz, and that Army helicopters destroyed six Iranian military speedboats that threatened the ships.President Trump said Iran had “taken some shots at unrelated Nations,” including a South Korea cargo ship, in connection with an initiative he announced on Sunday to help guide stranded ships out of the strait. Mr. Trump said that aside from the South Korean ship, there had been “no damage going through the Strait.”

It remains unclear whether the attacks Monday indicated that the cease-fire had collapsed and that the war had resumed. Iran did not officially confirm or deny that it had resumed attacks, and a senior military official denied on state media that its boats had been sunk.

Here’s what else we’re covering:

• U.S.-China: The United States is pushing China to help pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered a rebuke to over its purchases of Iranian oil. Read more ›

• Sailors transferred: Pakistan again played a mediating role as it said it had helped transfer 22 crew members from the MV Touska, an Iranian ship that had been captured by the United States. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the crew would be handed over to Iran on Monday. Read more ›

• Economy and markets: Oil prices jumped and stocks fell as investors reacted to the continued uncertainty in the Strait of Hormuz. Read more ›

Show moreMay 4, 2026, 6:49 a.m. ET

Aaron BoxermanIsmaeel Naar and Sanam Mahoozi

Strikes in U.A.E., Oman and the Gulf strain a fragile truce.

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Violence flared anew in and around the Persian Gulf on Monday, as the United Arab Emirates said Iran had fired missiles and drones at its territory and the U.S. military said it sunk several Iranian military boats, straining the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East.

The Emirati authorities blamed Iran for attacks on a major oil port and an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, injuring three people in the first such attacks in the U.A.E. since the truce began four weeks ago. Oman also reported an attack that injured two people in the coastal town of Bukha, near Emirati territory, without identifying the perpetrator.

Loud booms shook the Emirati city of Dubai as air defense missiles detonated high overhead. U.S. Central Command said it had shot down Iranian missiles and drones aimed at U.S. military and commercial ships and around the strait.

It was not clear if the attacks signaled the collapse of the strained truce and a resumption of active warfare. Iran did not officially confirm or deny that it had resumed attacks, and a senior military official denied on state media that its boats had been sunk.

Iran has frequently targeted energy infrastructure in Gulf countries that host American military bases since Israel and the United States attacked in late February, beginning the war. But those attacks on Iran’s Gulf neighbors more or less came to a halt when a cease-fire went into effect on April 8.

At least three Indian citizens were injured when an Iranian drone struck an oil industrial zone in Fujairah, an Emirati port in the southern end of the Strait of Hormuz, the local authorities said. Oman, without assigning blame, said a residential building near the strait had been struck, with two people injured.

No casualties were reported in the attack on an Emirati oil tanker. South Korea’s government confirmed an explosion and fire in the same area on a ship belonging to a South Korean company, but did not say it had been attacked.

Negotiations between Iran and the United States, mediated by Pakistan, on a comprehensive deal to end the war have stalled, as both sides have drawn seemingly incompatible red lines. The Trump administration had sought to pressure Iran to end its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf with a new military operation to help commercial ships stuck in the waterway to leave.

Central Command said on Monday that several U.S. Navy vessels had steamed through the strait, and that they had accompanied a few commercial ships. Iranian officials threatened to retaliate against American warships or other vessels that sought to run their blockade.

Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for oil and gas, has rattled markets and sent energy prices skyrocketing worldwide. In response, the United States has imposed its own blockade of Iranian ports.

President Trump had initially conditioned the cease-fire with Iran on the end of the Iranian blockade. But Iran has effectively prevented most traffic from traveling through the waterway, and Tehran continues to assert that it has the right to control which ships can pass and also to assess tolls on them.

Eric Schmitt and Shirin Hakim contributed reporting.

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Peter Eavis reported from New York, and Gregory Schmidt from London.

Shipping firms are left guessing by confusion in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Shipping companies said on Monday that President Trump’s offer to provide them safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz fell short of the sort of arrangements that would persuade them to make the trip.

Mr. Trump said on Sunday that the United States would “guide” commercial vessels through the strait, which Iran has effectively closed since the war in the Persian Gulf started two months ago. But the president provided few details on how the program, Project Freedom, would work.

On Monday, U.S. Central Command said two American commercial ships had sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, but did not give their names or say when they made their passage.

But there were reports that other ships were struck. The United Arab Emirates accused Iran of launching a drone attack on an oil tanker owned by ADNOC, its state oil company, according to the Emirati state news agency. And a South Korean cargo ship caught fire on Monday after an explosion in the strait, the South Korean foreign ministry said.

Ali Abdollahi, a top Iranian military commander, warned “all commercial ships and oil tankers to refrain from any attempt to transit without coordination with the armed forces,” according to an Iranian state media report on Monday.

Fearing attacks by Iran on their vessels, shipping companies have been reluctant to send vessels through the strait. They say Iran needs to be part of any plan to move large numbers of vessels through the waterway.

Without an agreement from Iran, “there is a risk of hostilities breaking out again,” said Jakob P. Larsen, the chief safety and security officer of the Baltic and International Maritime Council, which represents companies in the maritime sector.

“It is unclear whether Project Freedom is sustainable in the longer run or whether it will be a limited operation to get some of the trapped ships out,” Mr. Larsen added.

Tom Bartosak-Harlow, a spokesman for the International Chamber of Shipping, a maritime trade group, said Mr. Trump’s plan lacked detail.

“There is much uncertainty around what Project Freedom means in practice, but any plans put in place must be done in a coordinated and transparent manner,” he said in a statement. Mr. Bartosak-Harlow said the chamber was calling on all countries, Iran included, “to work together to seek a swift and transparent resolution to restore freedom of navigation.”

Hapag-Lloyd, a large container shipping company, has several vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf that it would like to send through the strait. “At this stage, our risk assessment remains unchanged, and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed for Hapag-Lloyd transits until further notice,” the company said in a statement on Monday.

Iran’s stranglehold on the strait has cut off a significant proportion of the world’s supply of oil and natural gas.

Oil prices initially fell on the news of Mr. Trump’s operation, but then jumped on Monday in volatile trading. Tensions between the United States and Iran have underscored the risks surrounding maritime traffic through the strait, a critical energy choke point.

Despite assurances from Mr. Trump that any interference in the program would be dealt with “forcefully,” ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz have been reluctant to take the chance after reports of attacks on Sunday.

“The number of vessels passing the strait remain minimal, averaging five a day, but with only three in the last 48 hours,” Bob Savage, the head of markets strategy at BNY, wrote in a research note on Monday.

Most of the ships that have gone through the waterway since the war began have taken a route that runs close to Iran’s coastline, indicating that the ship operators got Iran’s permission to make the passage.

Insurance costs are a main reason cargo ships are not traveling through the strait, Ana Subasic, a trade risk analyst at Kpler, said in an email. “Even if a captain is willing to sail, owners, lenders, charterers and cargo interests may refuse to,” she added.

“Project Freedom has a moderate chance of extracting some vessels, especially U.S.-flagged or highly coordinated low-risk vessels, but a low chance of fully reopening Hormuz quickly unless it becomes legally clear, less expensive and diplomatically coordinated,” Ms. Subasic said.

The United States has set up a military blockade southeast of the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman to prevent Iranian ships transporting the country’s oil to world markets.

If Mr. Trump were to use military force to get ships through the strait, it would raise questions about whether the United States was providing some form of escort to commercial vessels. Early in the war, Mr. Trump suggested that the United States might deploy naval vessels as escorts, but later he called on other countries to do so.

On Monday, Central Command said Navy destroyers were operating in the Persian Gulf after sailing through the Strait of Hormuz as part of Project Freedom. It said that U.S. forces were “actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping” and that the passage of the two American merchant vessels was a “first step.”

Before Mr. Trump’s announcement, a vessel near the strait had been hit by projectiles and a second had been attacked by multiple small craft, according to a report Sunday from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a security center that is administered by Britain’s Royal Navy.

“Lives of sailors are in utmost danger — they have such scarcity of drinking water,” said P.A. Khan, who oversees the branch of the Maritime Union of India in Chennai, India. “What Trump is saying makes things more difficult and not easier.”

The International Maritime Organization, which monitors developments, said about 20,000 mariners on around 1,600 vessels were trapped in the Persian Gulf. “My call is to release the seafarers because they are not at fault,” Arsenio Dominguez, the group’s secretary-general, said in a statement last week. “The situation is not improving.”

Nearly 30 ships have been attacked since the war began, according to the organization.

Suhasini Raj contributed reporting from New Delhi; Vivian Nereim from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Choe Sang-Hun from Seoul.

Show moreMay 3, 2026, 6:12 p.m. ET

The New York Times

Oil prices jump in volatile trading.

Oil prices jumped sharply on Monday and stocks fell in volatile trading amid a flare-up in the conflict in the Persian Gulf and deepening uncertainty over the near-total shutdown of ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

New attacks were reported in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and U.S. Central Command said Navy ships shot down Iranian cruise missiles and drones that had been fired at ships. On Sunday, President Trump had said that the United States would “use best efforts” to get ships out of the strait that were not involved in the conflict but offered scant details about how the process would unfold.

But Iran rejected the U.S. efforts and threatened to attack American warships and any commercial vessels that might try to move through the strait.

Oil jumps.

• The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rose 6 percent on Monday to about $115 a barrel.

• West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, rose 4 percent, trading at roughly $106 a barrel.

• Since the United States and Israel struck Iran on Feb. 28, investors and analysts have been keenly focused on the continued disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that is a vital trading route for oil and natural gas and that normally carries as much as one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

Stocks drop.

• The S&P 500 fell about 0.5 percent on Monday, after notching its fifth straight week of gains on Friday.

• In Europe, the Stoxx 600, a broad-index that tracks the region’s largest companies, fell 0.9 percent. Markets in Britain were closed for a holiday.

• Stocks in Asia, where countries import vast quantities of oil and gas, were mostly higher. Stock markets in Taiwan and South Korea surged more than 4 percent, as semiconductor shares rose. Markets in Japan and China were closed for a holiday.

Gasoline prices rise.

• Gas prices rose a notch on Monday to a national average of $4.46 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club. The increase has raised the cost for drivers by just shy of 50 percent since the war began.

• Gas prices do not move in lock step with crude, usually trailing increases or decreases by a few days.

• Diesel prices stood basically even at $5.64 on Monday, up just over 50 percent since the start of the war.

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The United States is urging China to push Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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The United States on Monday urged China to push Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and said that its purchases of Iranian oil amounted to funding global terrorism, delivering a stern rebuke ahead of President Trump’s meeting in Beijing this month with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping.

The warning came from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who will be participating in the high-stakes meetings. Mr. Bessent has been leading an aggressive campaign to cripple Iran’s economy with a blitz of new sanctions. He has also been working to devise ways to increase oil supplies around the world to blunt the impact of soaring energy prices. Gasoline hit an average of $4.45 per gallon on Monday.

“Let’s see if China — let’s see them step up with some diplomacy and get the Iranians to open the strait,” Mr. Bessent said on Fox News on Monday. “Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, and China has been buying 90 percent of their energy, so they are funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism.”

Tension between the United States and China has eased since a year ago, when the Trump administration triggered a trade war by hiking tariffs on Chinese imports and China retaliated with export controls on critical minerals. But the Iran war has opened a new front in their rivalry, as Chinese purchases of Iranian oil keep Iran’s economy afloat.

In recent weeks, the Treasury Department has intensified economic pressure on China. It has specifically been targeting China’s independent “teapot” refineries with sanctions and warning financial institutions that they will face penalties for facilitating oil sales between Iran and China.

The Treasury Department on April 24 imposed sanctions on an independent Chinese refinery, Hengli Petrochemical Refinery, which is one of Iran’s largest customers for crude oil and other petroleum products. Hengli has purchased billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian crude from the Revolutionary Guards Corps, which wields military, political and economic clout throughout Iran.

But China responded this past weekend, ordering its companies not to comply with the U.S. sanctions. China’s Ministry of Commerce invoked a 2021 “blocking measure” that protects its firms from foreign laws that the Chinese government believes violate international norms and unfairly restrict trade.

U.S. sanctions are far-reaching economic tools that can block transactions and freeze the international assets of companies around the world, essentially cutting them off from Western financial services providers. China’s order to disregard the sanctions will create a new point of tension between the world’s two largest economies and could set the stage for additional decoupling of their financial systems.

China has been making other provocative moves ahead of the meeting between the two leaders.

Last Monday, the Chinese government said it would require the unwinding of Meta’s acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based artificial intelligence company with Chinese founders, in a move that could chill other Chinese entrepreneurs from seeking alliances with foreign partners.

Mr. Bessent suggested that Iran would be high on the agenda when Mr. Trump meets with Mr. Xi.

“The threat of attacks from Iran has closed the strait — we are reopening it,” Mr. Bessent said. “So I would urge the Chinese to join us in supporting this international operation.”

Show moreMay 4, 2026, 4:10 a.m. ET

Elian Peltier and Dan Watson

Elian Peltier reported from Islamabad, Pakistan.

Pakistan says it helped repatriate the Iranian crew of a ship seized by the U.S.

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Pakistan said Monday that it had helped transfer 22 crew members from an Iranian ship, describing the move as a “confidence-building measure” coordinated with the United States and Iran.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the crew, who had been held aboard the MV Touska after its capture by the U.S. Navy, were flown to Pakistan on Sunday and would be handed over to the Iranian authorities on Monday.

Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, confirmed that the United States had transferred the 22 crew members to Pakistan on Sunday. He said six other crew members from another country had been transferred last week. He did not specify the crew members’ country of origin.

The crew members were transferred by helicopter on Monday from the coastal area of Pasni, in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan, to a nearby border crossing with Iran, where they were handed over to Iranian officials, according to a Pakistani provincial official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the transfer.

The Pakistani military and government did not immediately respond to a request for comment on details of the transfer.

It was the latest act of mediation by Pakistan, which for weeks has shuttled messages between U.S. and Iranian officials, helped broker a cease-fire between the two sides and hosted them in its capital for high-level talks. Last week, Pakistan conveyed Iran’s latest proposal to end the war to the United States, though President Trump said he was not “satisfied” by it.

The Touska, an Iranian-flagged container ship placed under sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2020, was seized by U.S. forces in the Arabian Sea on April 19.

Mr. Trump said the ship had tried to evade the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports that had gone into effect the previous week. A U.S. Navy destroyer repeatedly warned the ship to stop before firing on the engine room and disabling it, U.S. Central Command said.

Iran’s military condemned the seizure as an act of “armed piracy” and vowed to retaliate, but said it was waiting to protect the ship’s crew and some of their family members.

“The Iranian ship will also be backloaded to Pakistani territorial waters for return to its original owners after necessary repairs,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry said in a statement on social media.

The transfer comes as tensions remain high in the Strait of Hormuz, where recent attacks have disrupted shipping and drawn an intensified U.S. response.

President Trump said the United States would begin an effort on Monday to help “guide” stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz.

Mr. Trump did not make clear in his social media post on Sunday what that meant. But a statement issued by the U.S. Central Command indicated that the American role would involve coordinating safe traffic among the stranded ships rather than escorting them.

The operation would apply to “neutral and innocent” countries affected by the Iran war, Mr. Trump said. Any interference in the program would be dealt with forcefully, he said. U.S. Central Command said military support will include guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 aircraft and 15,000 service members.

Initial reaction from Iran on Sunday was muted. Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the national security commission of Iran’s parliament, said that any interference in the strait would be seen as a cease-fire violation. IRIB, the state-run broadcaster, characterized the announcement as part of “Trump’s delirium.”

But on Monday, Iran threatened to attack American warships and any commercial vessels trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz without its permission.

Before the U.S. effort was announced, a tanker said that it was attacked by “unknown projectiles” in the Strait of Hormuz, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations organization said. The vessel reported being struck around 11:40 p.m. Sunday while off the coast of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. All crew members were reported safe.

A second vessel, an unidentified cargo ship, reported it was attacked by multiple small craft east of the strait, near Sirik, Iran, the British military said. The vessel departed and no injuries were reported.

Both the United States and Iran are blocking the transit of ships through the waterway, which remains a critical issue in peace talks. Mr. Trump told reporters over the weekend that Iran’s new proposal carried by Pakistani mediators was probably insufficient, but added in a social media post on Sunday that the negotiations were ongoing and “could lead to something very positive for all.”

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President Trump said on social media that Iran had “taken some shots at unrelated Nations,” including a South Korea cargo ship, in connection with an initiative he announced on Sunday called Project Freedom to help guide stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said in his Truth Social post that the U.S. had shot down seven “small boats” and that, other than the South Korean ship, there had been “no damage going through the Strait.” He said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would hold a news conference on Tuesday.

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May 4, 2026, 12:53 p.m. ET

Shirin Hakim

IRIB, Iran’s state-run broadcaster, said that a senior Iranian military official denied a U.S. claim that several Iranian warboats had been sunk. The official said Iran had no plans to target the United Arab Emirates, after regional tensions escalated over reported attacks near Fujairah and in the Strait of Hormuz.

May 4, 2026, 12:43 p.m. ET

Ismaeel Naar

Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Oman’s state news agency reported that a residential building housing local workers in the coastal town of Bukha was “targeted in an attack.”

The attack caused “moderate injuries to two expatriates, damage to four vehicles and the shattering of windows in a neighboring house,” the Oman News Agency reported, citing a security source.

Bukha is on the northern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, which juts into the Strait of Hormuz.

May 4, 2026, 12:36 p.m. ET

Eric Schmitt

National security reporter

Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, said today that Navy warships shot down Iranian cruise missiles and drones fired at U.S. military and cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and that Army Apache helicopter gunships destroyed six Iranian military speedboats that threatened the vessels.

Cooper said several Navy destroyers had steamed through the Strait of Hormuz and were now in the Arabian Sea. 

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Ismaeel Naar

Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates defense ministry said its air defenses were “actively engaging” with missiles and drone threats, and that “sounds heard across the country are the result of ongoing engaging operations.”

So far, residents across the Emirates have received at least four alerts on their phones over the past several hours telling them to seek shelter.

May 4, 2026, 11:55 a.m. ET

Ismaeel Naar

Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

A major fire has broken out in an oil industry port in Fujairah, one of the United Arab Emirates, the authorities there said. They said the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone, the largest port and oil storage area in the Emirates, had been attacked by an Iranian drone. While the large Emirati cities are on the country’s western coast, facing the Persian Gulf, Fujairah is on the eastern coast, facing the Gulf of Oman.

May 4, 2026, 11:23 a.m. ET

Ismaeel Naar

Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates said its air defenses engaged with four cruise missiles from Iran targeting the country, according to a defense ministry statement, as residents were told via mobile alerts to seek shelter for a second time within hours. Iran has not commented on the attack beyond reporting on it.

Three of the missiles were successfully intercepted over territorial waters, while the fourth landed in the sea, the defense ministry added.

May 4, 2026, 11:05 a.m. ET

Choe Sang-Hun

A South Korean cargo ship caught fire on Monday after an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz, the South Korean foreign ministry said. The general cargo vessel HMM Namu — operated by the South Korean shipping company HMM — was anchored in waters near the United Arab Emirates, according to the ministry. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said the blast originated on the port side of the ship’s engine room.

No casualties were reported, both ministries said. They said the government was working to determine the cause of the incident. The ship was carrying 24 crew members.

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Ismaeel Naar

Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates is in discussions with the United States to establish a formal currency swap line, the U.A.E.’s trade minister, Thani al-Zeyoudi, said on Monday.

A currency swap line allows two central banks to exchange their currencies directly at a pre-negotiated rate, bypassing volatile foreign exchange markets during times of economic stress.

“It is not about bailing out,” he said at a conference in Abu Dhabi, adding that “investments between both nations reach a level where that swap is highly needed.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested last month that allies in the Gulf and Asia had requested currency swap lines amid the war in the Middle East.

May 4, 2026, 9:06 a.m. ET

Ismaeel Naar

Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The first missile threat alert was issued on mobile phones in the United Arab Emirates since a cease-fire between the United States and Iran took effect last month. “Steer away from windows, doors, and open areas. Await further instructions,” said the message sent by the U.A.E.’s ministry of the interior.

About 15 minutes later, the ministry sent an alert saying that the threat was over.

May 4, 2026, 8:47 a.m. ET

Aaron Boxerman

Reporting from Jerusalem

The U.S. military said on Monday that two U.S.-flagged merchant vessels had passed through the Strait of Hormuz, despite Iranian threats that it would attack boats and American warships that tried to transit the waterway without their permission.

It was not immediately clear which vessels the military was referring to in its statement. The military’s announcement was made after President Trump said on Sunday that U.S. forces would start to help vessels stranded by Iran’s effective blockade of the strait to exit the waterway.

May 4, 2026, 8:04 a.m. ET

Vivian Nereim

Reporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The United Arab Emirates accused Iran of launching a drone attack on an oil tanker owned by its state oil company, ADNOC, while it tried to transit through the Strait of Hormuz. The report by the Emirati state news agency on Monday did not say when the attack occurred, and no injuries were reported.

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Aaron Boxerman

Reporting from Jerusalem

The U.S. Central Command denied Iranian claims to have struck an American naval vessel with two missiles. Capt. Tim Hawkins, a military spokesman, said no U.S. Navy ship had been stopped or targeted in any way in the area. President Trump on Sunday said that the U.S. would help ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz to exit the waterway, but did not provide details on what that would entail.