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This video can not be played       Figure caption,  Watch: Missile interceptions seen in Jordan's night sky       By Claire Keenan  and David Gritten     Published 9 September 2026           Oil prices rose to $100 (£74) a barrel on Wednesday, after the US and Iran attacked tankers in the Gulf region and Yemen's Houthis hit oil facilities in Saudi Arabia.  Overnight, the US said it struck five Iranian tankers in retaliation for Iran's targeting of a warship, while Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they attacked eight tankers and two warships in response, as well as a US base in Jordan. The Guards also said they planned a new "prohibited zone" for shipping that extended beyond the Strait of Hormuz into the Arabian Sea. The Iran-backed Houthis reported dozens of Saudi strikes in Yemen, a day after drone and missile attacks caused fires at several oil facilities in Saudi Arabia.     (Interactive or visual content)       The escalating conflicts pushed the price of Brent crude, the global benchmark, to its highest level since late July, (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyj834jn5lo) when Iran and the US resumed hostilities after a one-month lull.  A barrel was priced at $100.70, up 2.83% compared to Tuesday, on Wednesday afternoon. Before the US and Israel's war with Iran began in February, Brent crude had been priced at about $70 (£52) a barrel. But Iranian missile and drone attacks on commercial shipping and a US naval blockade of Iranian ports resulted in the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz waterway in the Gulf, through which 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments usually pass. The Houthis have also been targeting Saudi energy infrastructure and tankers in the Red Sea since July, when a four-year ceasefire in Yemen began unravelling. The rising oil costs have sparked (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20zgjzz0e4o) leaps in petrol prices around the world for motorists .      (An Iranian crude oil carrier identified as M/T Riesco is seen ablaze and sinking in the Gulf Oman following a US attack, in a video released by Centcom (8 September 2026))    Image source,  US Central Command/Handout via REUTERS  Image caption,  Centcom released video footage that it said showed the Iranian tanker Riesco ablaze and sinking       The US military's Central Command (Centcom) said early on Wednesday that its latest strikes destroyed four Iranian oil tankers linked to Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Gulf of Oman - Kaviz, Charminar, Horizon 1 and Riesco - and a fifth tanker - Derya - near Kharg Island, in the northern Gulf, which hosts Iran's main terminal for exporting oil. US forces directed the crews to abandon ship before the vessels were struck, it added. Centcom said the attacks came after the IRGC launched ballistic missiles at a US warship in the region twice in two days. It added that the warship "successfully evaded" the missiles and that no American troops were harmed. The IRGC said its Aerospace Force launched missiles at US maintenance facilities, hangars and aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan overnight in retaliation for the US strikes. Jordan's armed forces said they intercepted 20 Iranian missiles and two others fell in unpopulated areas, with no casualties were reported. Later, the IRGC said its navy also attacked two US Navy destroyers and eight oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, causing "heavy damage" to the vessels. Centcom said the claim that the IRGC struck two of its warships was false.      (A graphic showing the location of Kharg Island in the northwest of The Gulf about 25 kilometres off the coast of Iran. A satellite image shows the whole island which is roughly eight kilometres long and four kilometres wide. Shadows indicate that the island has many rocky outcrops but the island has been heavily industrialised. There is an airport in the northeast that extends slightly into the sea and around it appears to be the main accommodation on the island. The oil terminal takes up most of the southern half of the island where more than fifty large, white circular structures are clearly visible. These are the oil containers and they are surrounded by other smaller industrial buildings. The south of the island is flanked by two jetties for oil tankers to dock when loading. In the middle of the island an area is labelled as being an air defence complex. Image credit: Reuters, Google.)         The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said it had received reports of several merchant vessels in the northern Gulf and the Gulf of Oman being "subject to disabling fire as part of ongoing military activity in the region". It also reported that one vessel 24 nautical miles (45km) north-west of Port Rashid, in the United Arab Emirates, was seen "listing while at anchor, possibly indicating water ingress following an attack from an unknown projectile". Iraqi authorities said they extinguished a fire on a Panama-flagged tanker, New Andros, that was carrying two million barrels of fuel oil when it was hit by a drone in the Gulf. On Wednesday afternoon, IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebi told Iranian state TV that it would soon announce the co-ordinates for a new "prohibited zone" covering "part of the Sea of Oman and another part of the Arabian Sea, along the route that can lead to the Strait of Hormuz". "If a vessel enters that area without co-ordination, it will be subject to our sanctions," he said. When asked by reporters about the latest tit-for-tat strikes, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that the situation was "pretty straightforward". "Iran continues to try to hit US naval ships. And, for every time they do that or try to do that, they're going to lose tankers. And I think you'll see that again today," Rubio told reporters during a trip to Colombia. The US strikes on Tuesday came hours after Iran's Navy said it had seized an uncrewed US submarine in the Strait of Hormuz. US Navy Capt Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for Centcom, said an "underwater drone operated by US forces malfunctioned more than a day ago" and that it had been used to survey regional waters. Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, an Iran-backed group that controls much of north-western Yemen, have also been exchanging fire. Following a wave of air strikes on Sunday and Monday, the Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of bombing a prison in Hazm. The group's military spokesman Yahya Sarea said on Wednesday that the bodies of 23 civilians had so far been pulled from the rubble. On Tuesday, (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp849n2nz01o) the Houthis launched dozens of drones and missiles at civilian and economic sites in the southern Saudi cities of Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran, injuring 73 civilians, according to Saudi authorities. The attacks caused fires at oil facilities that led to a temporary halt in operations, they said. On Wednesday, the Houthis reported more than 50 Saudi air strikes across territory they control in the provinces of Marib, Jawf, Taiz, Hudaydah, Saada and Bayda. There was no immediate comment from the Saudi military. There has also been heavy fighting on Yemen's south-western coast since Thursday, when the Houthis launched an offensive against Saudi-backed Yemeni pro-government forces in a bid to take control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. More than 500 people have reportedly been killed and almost 20,000 displaced.     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