May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. military naval units operating in the area of the Strait of Hormuz came under Iranian missile fire following an attack by the U.S. military on an Iranian oil tanker, Iranian state media, citing an unnamed military official, said on Thursday.

U.S. military vessels were forced to retreat after sustaining damage from Iranian missile strikes, it added.

It was unclear when the incident happened.

Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim reported that three U.S. destroyers near the Strait of Hormuz were targeted in an attack by the Iranian navy.

May 8 (Reuters) - Iran accused the United States of violating a ceasefire by targeting two ships at the Strait of Hormuz and attacking civilian areas, the country's top joint military command said early on Friday.

The U.S. targeted "an Iranian oil tanker traveling from Iran's coastal waters near Jask toward the Strait of Hormuz, as well as another vessel entering the Strait of Hormuz near the Emirati port of Fujairah," a spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a statement carried by state media.

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a "great call" with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday and would give the EU until July 4 to fulfill its side of the trade deal before hiking U.S. tariffs to much higher levels.

"I’ve been waiting patiently for the EU to fulfill their side of the Historic Trade Deal we agreed in Turnberry, Scotland, the largest Trade Deal, ever!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

A man who launched a Molotov cocktail attack on Jewish protesters in Colorado last year that killed one person and injured more than a dozen others was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday, US media said.

Mohamed Soliman, a 46-year-old Egyptian, admitted a raft of charges, including first degree murder, over the horrific June attack in Boulder.

Soliman threw fire bombs and sprayed burning gasoline at a group of people who had gathered in the city in support of Israeli hostages held by Hamas after the militant group's assault on Israel in October 2023.

By Steve Gorman and Keith Coffman

DENVER, May 7 (Reuters) - The man who lobbed gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally in a fiery attack last year that killed one person and left more than a dozen others injured in Colorado pleaded guilty on Thursday to all charges he faced in state court and was sentenced to life in prison.

May 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. on Thursday urged countries to support its United Nations resolution demanding Iran halt attacks and mining of the Strait of Hormuz, but diplomats said China and Russia are likely to veto it.

A Chinese veto would be awkward ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's trip to China next week, where the Iran war is like to be high on the agenda.

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump announced that he will withdraw 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany as a rift over the Iran war widens between the Republican's administration and NATO allies and other partners in Europe.

Can the U.S. president decide on his own to downsize the decades-long U.S. presence in Germany?

WHAT IS TRUMP PLANNING, AND WHY?

Left-wing Democratic lawmakers have called on the United States to break its silence on Israel's suspected nuclear weapons program, shattering a decades-long bipartisan reticence in Washington on the sensitive issue.

Israel is widely believed to have developed nuclear weapons in the 1960s but keeps a deliberately ambiguous policy by neither confirming nor denying its arsenal, which is is not subject to any international monitoring.

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - The United States sanctioned on Thursday Iraq's deputy oil minister and militias over support for Iran, the Treasury Department said.

The Treasury Department accused Iraq's minister Ali Maarij Al-Bahadly of abusing "his position to facilitate the diversion of oil to be sold for the benefit of the Iranian regime and its proxy militias in Iraq."

The department is also sanctioning three senior leaders of Iran-aligned militias Kata’ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada and Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq, it said.

LONDON, May 7 - With the standoff over the frozen Iran war threatening a global economic meltdown, Washington and Tehran have scaled back their efforts to agree a comprehensive peace deal and now seek a limited pact putting off the harder issues.

This is what we know about the proposals under discussion and where they leave the big unresolved disputes behind the war:

AT WHAT STAGE ARE THE DISCUSSIONS?