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7. NYT -Live Updates: At Least 3 Ships Come Under Attack Near Key Oil Passage

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 08:08 AM

21 hrs ago

The Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for a fifth of the world’s oil, is all but closed as war in the Middle East expands. A British agency said three ships were hit by unidentified projectiles in or near the strait.

Three ships in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz were struck in separate incidents on Wednesday, according to a British monitoring agency, as the Middle East war chokes off one of the key conduits for the global oil trade.

Hours before the strikes, the U.S. military said that it had attacked 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil transits.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/11/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil-israel/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share

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Senator Murphy says they can't safely open up the Strait, there is no plan [View all] SamuelTheThird 23 hrs ago OP

Can the mines be located if their placements weren't documented? no_hypocrisy 23 hrs ago #1

NYT -Live Updates: At Least 3 Ships Come Under Attack Near Key Oil Passage womanofthehills 21 hrs ago #7

this is what happens when Trump listens to only his bootlickers and other dictators Skittles 23 hrs ago #2

What happens when you let a toddler make foreign policy. Crunchy Frog 23 hrs ago #3

Someone here is rah-rahing this insanity? AllyCat 22 hrs ago #4

You expect plans from a reality TV star, some Fox News hosts malaise 22 hrs ago #5

No one could have seen this coming IronLionZion 21 hrs ago #6

Policy divorced from logistics and sound judgment bucolic_frolic 21 hrs ago #8

It may have been 100% foreseeable... GiqueCee 21 hrs ago #9

He's so incompetent China must be tempted to invade Taiwan SamuelTheThird 16 hrs ago #10

Chris Murphy always tells it like it is. yellow dahlia 7 hrs ago #11