Monday 13 July 2026

U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the naval blockade will resume beginning tomorrow and announces a 20% fee on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The South Korean government reports that the Panama-flagged cargo vessel HMM Namu has completed repairs in Dubai after it was damaged in a missile attack in the Strait of Hormuz on May 4. However, the vessel is unlikely to resume commercial operations immediately amid renewed tensions in the region.

Trump reportedly notifies U.S. Congress that the war has resumed, giving his administration another 60-day clock without congressional approval.

The United Kingdom announces that it will designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization, and will ban support for the militia group.

The IRGC says that they have hit the Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain and the Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan as part of a second wave of retaliatory strikes against the United States.

The European Union imposes sanctions against Sudan's gold trade, accusing them of financing the civil war in the country.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei says that Pakistan and Qatar will continue talks to prevent further escalation in the war.

The United States Central Command reports that a navy pilot was killed during a helicopter crash on July 1 in the Arabian Sea, bringing the death toll of American soldiers killed in the Iran war to 14. Additionally, the total amount of wounded troops rise to above 400 including from traumatic brain injuries.

According to Mehr News Agency, Khuzestan deputy governor Valiollah Hayati says that a security guard was killed in a U.S. strike on a water pumping station in Bandar Mahshahr, Iran.

The Houthi-led government accuses Saudi Arabia of an airstrike on a runway at Sanaa International Airport in Houthi-controlled Yemen, which Yemen's internationally recognized government says was to stop an Iranian Mahan Air flight that was returning the Houthi delegation from the funeral of Ali Khamenei.

Yemen's internationally-recognized government orders all airports closed after striking Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport to prevent an Iranian plane from landing. The Houthis say the aircraft landed, while the Saudi-led coalition controls airspace clearances.

Yemen's Houthis say they have targeted Abha International Airport in Asir, Saudi Arabia, with ballistic missiles and drones, calling the attack retaliation for strikes on Sanaa airport that they blame on Saudi Arabia, though Yemen's internationally-recognized government claims responsibility.

The Sudanese Army says that it has downed another Chinese-made FH-95 drone near El-Obeid in North Kordofan, making it the fourth drone downed by the army.

Ravindra Ganjhu, a CPI (Maoist) top wanted leader, is confirmed to have been arrested by Jharkhand police in Latehar, India during an anti-Maoist operation.

The U.S. military says that they have launched a new round of strikes after Trump said the U.S. Navy would reinstate the blockade.

The Hungarian parliament moves to remove president Tamás Sulyok through a constitutional amendment backed by prime minister Péter Magyar's majority government.

Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez appoints U.S. envoy Félix Plasencia to a foreign relations and overseas trade post, replacing foreign minister Yván Gil, who becomes science and technology minister.

The New York Times reports that former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is under house arrest after Iranian authorities reportedly uncovered a significant portion of his contacts with Israel. However, his office denies these reports, including reports that Israel recruited him for regime changing plans.

A cyclosporiasis outbreak, caused by cyclospora cayetanensis, is reported in 31 U.S. states by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reporting 2,640 cases in the state.

Sudan's Khartoum State government reports a shortage in drinking water in neighborhoods in the state including southern Omdurman after a sharp drop is reported in the water levels on the Nile River.

The University of Oxford begins the first human trial of its ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain of the ebolavirus.

Astronomers announce that an erythrulose molecule was detected inside a cloud of gas and dust near the center of the Milky Way. It is the first evidence of sugar in interstellar space.

A fire breaks out at a pub in Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand, killing 27 people and wounding 63 more.