After nearly four weeks of heavy bombardment by U.S. and Israeli forces, Iran is still able to assail its Persian Gulf neighbors and Israel with daily missile and drone attacks.

US media is now reporting that at least 12 American soldiers were injured in the Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Airbase, an increase on the 10 we reported earlier, according to the BBC's news partner CBS.

The sell-off in European stocks continued on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump extended the ongoing hiatus of attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure. The pan-European Stoxx 600 provisionally ended the session 0.

Trump claims oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz signal real talks, as Steve Witkoff reports positive signs in U.S.-Iran backchannel negotiations.

Traffic through the strait has fallen by 90% since the start of the Iran war, sending global oil prices skyrocketing.

When the U.S. launched Operation Earnest Will in 1987 to safeguard commercial vessels in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, the first escort mission ended in calamity, when a U.S.-flagged oil tanker, the Bridgeton, struck a mine. Another mine blew a hole in the hull of a Navy frigate, the USS Samuel Roberts, the following year.

More than 850 Tomahawks have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, alarming some Pentagon officials because the weapon’s supply is limited.

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Elon Musk joined a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday about the war in Iran, the New York Times reported on Friday,