A cargo ship has been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz.
The attack from an ‘unknown projectile’, which was reported at 4.35am GMT, happened 11 nautical miles north of Oman and resulted in a fire onboard the ship.
The UKMTO, a maritime monitor, said crew are evacuating the vessel.
It added: ‘Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO while authorities continue to investigate.’
No group or military has yet claimed responsibility.
The maritime body also said it had received a report of a separate incident off the UAE coast, with the master of a container vessel reporting it sustained damage from a suspected but unknown projectile.
It comes after American forces destroyed 16 Iranian minelaying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz.
The White House had earlier warned Iran will be hit ‘at a level never seen before’ if they place mines on the Strait of Hormuz amid concerns the regime could target the key oil waterway.
‘US forces eliminated multiple Iranian naval vessels, March 10, including 16 minelayers near the Strait of Hormuz,’ the US Central Command announced on X, with an accompanying video showing some of the strikes.
A map showing the latest attacks in the Strait of Hormuz reported to the UKMTO. The latest attack is marked with an ‘X’
American forces destroyed 16 Iranian minelaying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz is the only sea passage between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
The minelayers near the Strait of Hormuz were among multiple Iranian vessels taken out by US forces on Tuesday.
The military published the figure and unclassified footage of some of the vessels after Donald Trump warned Iran against laying mines in the critical waterway.
Overnight, the US and Israel traded air strikes with Iran across the Middle East on Wednesday as the besieged Tehran government warned its state security forces were ready with ‘fingers on the trigger’ to confront any anti-government protests.
Following an exchange of some of the heaviest bombardments in the region yet on Tuesday, the combatants renewed their attacks on opposing targets in Israel, Lebanon and the Gulf as the war stretched into its 12th day.
The conflict has effectively blocked vital shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, halting the flow of one-fifth of the world’s fossil energy supplies from the petroleum-rich Gulf.
After a major surge in crude oil prices on Monday, global energy prices have tumbled and stock markets rebounded as investors bet that US President Donald Trump would seek to end the war soon.
Adding to market optimism, the International Energy Agency has proposed the largest release of oil reserves in its history to further stabilise crude prices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with the matter.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Nevertheless, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed to block oil shipments from the Gulf unless US and Israeli attacks ceased. And air strikes between the two sides showed no immediate sign of abatement.
Millions of Israelis were repeatedly driven into bomb shelters overnight as the military warned Iran had launched missiles toward Israel, a sign that Tehran retains the capacity to strike Israel after nearly two weeks of hostilities.
The sound of explosions from air defences intercepting the rockets punctuated the pre-dawn darkness as air raid sirens blared and Israelis scrambled to safe rooms and shelters.
There was no immediate word of whether any of the missiles reached the ground.
Emergency personnel work at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building in Beirut’s Aisha Bakkar neighbourhood on March 11, 2026
Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of the Iranian supreme leader in US-Israeli strikes
Iran’s armed forces spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi on Wednesday urged regional countries and fellow Muslims to indicate ‘Us-Zionist (Israeli) hiding places’ to maximise the precision and impact of Iranian strikes, while minimising harm to civilians, who he said are ‘used as human shields’, according to Defapress, a news outlet affiliated with the military.
Shekarchi also said that Iran will respond to recent U.S.-Israeli strikes in residential areas.
The latest attacks from Iran roughly coincided with a new Israeli barrage on Beirut aimed at rooting out the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, which has fired into Israel from Lebanon in solidarity with the Tehran government.
Large-scale rallies have been held in Iran in support of its newly named supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, a hardliner chosen to succeed his father, who was killed on the war’s first day.
More to follow.
