Ship disabled by attack in Strait of Hormuz and other news from around the Middle East

An oil tanker was hit with a projectile off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report Tuesday that highlighted the ongoing dangers for shipping companies attempting to use the waterway while Iran holds it in firm control.

The attack came as a high-level delegation from Pakistan, which has been a main mediator between the United States and Iran, was wrapping up meetings in Tehran with the goal of bringing a negotiated end to the nearly six-month old war.

Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.

The oil tanker was hit Monday night a few miles off the east coast of Oman, according to a report Tuesday from the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization.

The strike disabled the ship's engine, but all crew were reported safe, the UKMTO said. There were no immediate reports of any environmental impact. Prior attacks on tankers during the war have caused oil spills.

About a fifth of the world's traded oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Iran now has a stranglehold on traffic through the strait and periodically fires at vessels attempting to transit, though there was no immediate claim for Monday's attack.

The U.S. is also operating a blockade of Iranian ports and has fired on vessels.

A delegation from Pakistan led by army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir departed Tehran on Tuesday after talks with Iran’s president and other senior officials on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and reviving negotiations to end the Iran-U.S. conflict, the Pakistani military said.

Pakistan has sought to mediate a resolution between Iran and the U.S., maintaining contacts with officials in both countries. Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had been “very positive and productive.”

Iran and Oman, located on the opposite side of the strait from Iran, are finalizing their own proposal for managing the waterway. Oman’s foreign minister was to meet with Iranian authorities Tuesday.

Tuesday marked one year since Israeli soldiers killed 22 Palestinians, including journalists and rescue workers, in a double strike on a hospital in Gaza that provoked global outrage. No one has been held accountable.

Israeli officials said the target was a suspected Hamas camera on the roof of Nasser Hospital. Among those killed were Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri and Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who worked for The Associated Press and other news organizations.

Despite repeated requests by the AP, the army has not provided details about the investigation or a timeline for when it could be completed. Rights groups say Israel rarely holds troops accountable for killing Palestinians, pointing to long investigations that rarely lead to prosecution.

China's Foreign Ministry says it is closely following plans announced by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to expand sanctions to entities and individuals linked to Iran, including some based in China.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said China-Iran cooperation “should not be disrupted or undermined,” noting that it has conformed with international law.

China is one of Iran's biggest trading partners and purchases the majority of its total oil exports.

The Treasury Department on Monday said it was imposing sanctions on nearly 60 Iran-linked entities, including several based in China. It stopped short of imposing secondary sanctions on countries that trade with Iran.

An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday killed at least one Palestinian and wounded four others in southern Gaza, hospital officials said.

The strike hit a group of people northwest of the city of Khan Younis, according to the city’s Nasser hospital. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

The death was the latest among Palestinians in Gaza since an October ceasefire attempted to halt more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas.

A far-right Israeli lawmaker smashed a Palestinian memorial in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday after entering the village of Madama with an Israeli military escort.

Video showed Tzvi Succot, an Knesset member from the Religious Zionism party, destroying the village’s “Martyrs’ Monument” with a hammer while Israeli soldiers stood nearby. The Israeli military said it authorized and provided security for Succot’s trip but that his group went beyond what was agreed to by demolishing the monument without permission.

Succot said the monument constituted incitement and glorified terrorism. He is running with the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party in Israel’s upcoming election.

Riyad Abu Dagga, 69, visits the grave of his daughter, Mariam Dagga, a freelance journalist who worked with The Associated Press and other news outlets during the Gaza war and was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nasser Hospital building in Khan Younis on Aug. 25, 2025, at a cemetery in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Aug. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at a news conference, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

In this photo released by Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency, ICANA, Iran's Parliament Speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, right, speaks with Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (Mahmoud Hosseini/ICANA via AP)

In this photo released by Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency, ICANA, Iran's Parliament Speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, right, shakes hands with Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (Mahmoud Hosseini/ICANA via AP)

In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Masoud Pezeshkian, right, meets Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — After nearly a month of testimony, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are set to hear from the final witnesses in a case that has largely been about her mental state when she strangled her three young children.

The trial will resume Tuesday with more testimony from a forensic psychologist hired by prosecutors to evaluate Clancy's psychiatric history and assess the defense claim that she was suffering from acute postpartum psychosis when she killed the children at their Massachusetts home.

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Kirk Heilbrun told jurors Monday that he believed Clancy took her children's lives so they wouldn’t “suffer” after she killed herself. He said he didn't believe Clancy's claim that she hallucinated a voice telling her to kill the children.

Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, will get a chance Tuesday to question Heilbrun about his conclusions. Prosecutors are then expected to call at least one more expert witness before the trial moves on to closing arguments, likely no earlier than Wednesday.

Earlier in the trial, jurors heard from other medical experts, called by the defense, who said Clancy wasn't responsible for her actions because she had lost her grip on reality due to postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness that can follow childbirth.

In the months before killing her children, Clancy had sought treatment for mental health problems from multiple providers and admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital.

After killing her children, Clancy jumped from a second-floor window. She remains paralyzed from the waist down.

Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the January 2023 deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old.

Defendant Lindsay Clancy talks with her lawyer Kevin Reddington. during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026 in Plymouth, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)