The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Defense announced that the country’s air defenses are “actively engaging” with a missile and drone attack as the Iran war’s shaky ceasefire was again challenged.

Until now, Vladimir Putin’s government is thought to have provided intelligence that enabled Iran to target American forces in the Middle East. This is the first evidence that it may also have offered to supply innovative weapons in large enough numbers to inflict many casualties on American and allied forces,

US forces targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for launching a series of “unprovoked” missile, drone and small boat attacks against American warships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command said on Thursday.

Iran claimed Thursday that it struck U.S. military assets in the Strait of Hormuz after an alleged American attack on an Iranian tanker. U.S. Central Command refuted the claims, saying that American warships intercepted Iranian missiles, drones and small boats during a transit operation and that no U.S. assets were hit.

U.S. Central Command said that forces struck Iranian military sites responsible for missile, drone and boat attacks on U.S. warships on Thursday.

Iran’s conventional navy warships might be largely destroyed, but analysts say that’s never where its true sea power lay.

Whether Iran accepts the latest US peace proposal or not, Donald Trump is intent on winding down a conflict that’s proving increasingly problematic for him. His memorandum of understanding, which Iranian leaders are expected to respond to any day now,