US launches seventh night of strikes on Iran as shipping halts in Hormuz

For seven consecutive nights, American warplanes have struck targets inside Iran, marking the collapse of a fragile ceasefire and the resumption of a cycle of escalation that neither side appears ready to interrupt. The Strait of Hormuz — that narrow passage through which a fifth of the world's oil and gas must travel — has fallen quiet of commercial shipping, a silence that carries its own warning about the fragility of global order. Both governments trade competing accounts of what has been destroyed and who bears responsibility, while the dead accumulate and the lights of tankers disappear