Iran and the US trade strikes in the Persian Gulf, further testing the ceasefire

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• Iran and the US trade strikes in the Persian Gulf, further testing the ceasefire toggle caption Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Kuwait briefly shut the country's main airport Wednesday after Iranian drones heavily damaged it and killed one person — the latest salvo in a series of back-and-forth attacks by Tehran and Washington that have tested a fragile ceasefire.
• The strikes came as semiofficial Iranian news agencies said the country had stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the U.S. and Israel.
• A regional official said Tehran wanted the truce in Lebanon enforced before returning to talks.
• U.S. President Donald Trump said negotiations were continuing.
• Those talks have dragged on for weeks, and repeated exchanges of strikes in the Gulf region and Israel's broadening war in Lebanon are further straining the efforts.