US completes ninth night of strikes as Iran retaliates; Hormuz traffic halts, oil hits $90

Three US service members killed; Iranian strikes on desalination plants cut water supplies to approximately 10,000 people in southern Iran.

For nine consecutive nights, American airstrikes have struck at the military architecture of Iran, and Iran has answered with fire of its own across a region now taut with alarm. The Strait of Hormuz — that narrow passage through which a third of the world's seaborne oil flows — has fallen quiet, as commerce freezes and crude prices climb toward $90 a barrel. What began with the deaths of three American service members has grown into something the whole world feels in its fuel costs, its water supplies, and its sense of what stability means. Two powers have stopped talking, and the silence bet

US completes ninth night of strikes as Iran retaliates; Hormuz traffic halts, oil hits $90

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