The U.S. military early Wednesday reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports over Tehran's attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, sparking new strikes on nations hosting American forces as an interim deal to end the war further unraveled.
Days of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East by Iran - and both nations' attempts to assert control of the waterway through which a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas trade passes during peacetime - threaten to push the region back to all-out war.
