The United Nations on Thursday suspended its evacuation plan for ships stranded in the Persian Gulf after a cargo ship was struck by a “projectile” as it exited the Strait of Hormuz. Senior U.S. officials said the ship was attacked by Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a bid to assert its control over international shipping through the vital waterway. Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen said on Friday that its cargo ship Ever Lovely, owned by an Evergreen subsidy in Singapore, was struck by a projectile on Thursday as it passed 3.6 nautical miles off Oman’s coastal island of Khawr Naiwah. The Ever Lovely had been trapped in the Persian Gulf for over 100 days before it loaded cargo from Iraq’s port of Umm Qasr and set course for Singapore on Thursday morning flanked by three other ships. The commercial vessels were all following the safe course along the coast of Oman recommended by the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMOT) center. UKMTO also reported the incident, as did the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, which denounced the attack as “unprovoked, unjustifiable, and a breach of international law.” The US military on Friday struck Iran in response to an attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. On Thursday, Iranian drones attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship exiting the Strait of Hormuz amid a ‘ceasefire agreement.’ Earlier Friday, President Trump said Iran’s attack was a “foolish violation of our ceasefire agreement.” Later Friday, the US military conducted strikes against Iranian missile and drone storage locations. Per CENTCOM: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted strikes against Iran, June 26, as a powerful response to yesterday’s attack on a commercial ship that was transiting the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites after Iran hit M/V Ever Lovely on June 25 with a one-way attack drone. The Singapore-flagged cargo ship was exiting the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani coast at the time of Iran’s attack. The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by Iranian forces clearly violated the ceasefire... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/us-strikes-iran-response-attack-commercial-vessel-strait/ The US has attacked Iran from the air again - and Iran has targeted US bases in countries around the Persian Gulf. The ceasefire and negotiations are hanging by an increasingly fragile thread as both sides threaten to take even tougher action. Air raid sirens sounded several times in Bahrain and Kuwait overnight Sunday, with Iran's Revolutionary Guard confirming it had attacked US bases in both countries with drones and missiles. If the war resumes, the United States will destroy the state of Iran, Donald Trump warned earlier in the night. The United States then attacked Iran from the air again, in attacks that were said to be aimed at weapons depots and radar facilities along the Iranian coast. The attacks were more extensive than those that took place a day earlier, military sources told The New York Times. The countries accuse each other of violating the ceasefire and the terms of the declaration of intent they signed last week... Continued activity at Iran’s underground Pickaxe Mountain complex is fueling new concerns over Tehran’s compliance with its nuclear agreement with the United States, with a Washington-based nuclear watchdog citing fresh satellite imagery and the continued absence of international inspections at the site. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has never been permitted to inspect the facility, which is buried deep within Iran’s Zagros Mountains. According to ISIS, imagery captured in late June indicates that work at the underground installation has not stopped. The organization said the photographs show vehicles entering the western tunnel portals and additional fortification work at the tunnel entrances, which it said points to continued construction inside the mountain. The institute said such activity appears incompatible with the memorandum of understanding, arguing that Iran is expected to preserve existing conditions at nuclear-related sites until inspection and verification measures are completed. By any historical measure, the human cost of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered unprecedented territory. Now, a new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimates that Russia has suffered roughly 1.4 million battlefield casualties, including as many as 450,000 deaths, since launching its full-scale invasion in February 2022. If accurate, those losses not only dwarf those sustained by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and Russia’s wars in Chechnya—they exceed the combined military fatalities Russia and the Soviet Union suffered in every conflict since the end of the Second World War. More striking, researchers estimate that Russia’s battlefield losses have become increasingly lopsided relative to Ukraine’s, with the casualty ratio climbing from roughly two or three Russian casualties for every Ukrainian casualty during much of the war to nearly eight-to-one during the first half of 2026. CSIS estimates Ukraine has suffered between 525,000 and 625,000 battlefield casualties, including between 125,000 and 150,000 fatalities, since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022. Combined, the report finds, Russian and Ukrainian battlefield casualties have now exceeded 2 million. The evidence shows that while Moscow continues to push offensive operations, it is doing so at an increasingly staggering human cost. According to the CSIS analysis, Russian battlefield deaths in Ukraine are now more than nine times greater than all Soviet and Russian military fatalities in other conflicts since World War II combined. Even when combined with every other Soviet and Russian military intervention since 1950—including Georgia, Syria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and earlier fighting in Ukraine before 2022—the total remains dramatically below the losses estimated in the current war. Significantly, the casualty imbalance between Russia and Ukraine continues to widen. For much of the conflict, researchers estimate Russia suffered between two and three casualties for every Ukrainian casualty. However, by early 2026, that ratio had nearly quadrupled to approximately 8:1, reflecting mounting Russian losses while Ukraine increasingly leveraged defensive positions and new technologies to inflict disproportionate damage.
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