US strikes dozens of Iranian targets in response to attacks on oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz
Tensions ramp up in Middle East as Trump meets allies at Nato summitpublished at 06:42 BST
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Trump arrived in Ankara on Tuesday for the Nato summit
The US and Iran have traded strikes overnight after tensions escalated in the Strait of Hormuz, as Donald Trump is in Turkey for the Nato summit.
US Central Command (Centcom) said on Tuesday it had hit over 80 targets, including more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) small boats in the strait.
The IRGC said it had responded with retaliatory attacks on US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Centcom says the US strikes are in response to Iran “targeting and attacking commercial shipping” in the strait, after several reports of tankers being targeted on Tuesday.
Iran, on the other hand, has accused the US of breaching a memorandum of understanding signed between the countries last month.
It comes as the US president will meet with allies at Nato’s Ankara summit – we’ll bring you up to speed with the situation in the Middle East and keep across what is happening in Turkey.
