Strait of Hormuz

Strait of Hormuz as this archive records it. Every line in the reporting sections below is a headline that was collected, with its outlet and date. Nothing here is written by a model: if a claim appears, some outlet made it, and this page does not say whether it is true. The Background section is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Strait of Hormuz

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Type	Place or actor
Region	middle east
Archived items	46
As of	2026-08-25

Situation as of 2026-08-25

Most recent archived item: Commodity Vessel Transits Through Strait of Hormuz Hit Three-Month Low, Data Shows - reported by gCaptain

Most recent archived item: gCaptain

This page lists 19 archived headlines published between 2026-02-28 and 2026-08-25. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Reporting by provenance

The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting. A state outlet is named with its affiliation attached.

Intl

• [1] 2026-08-24 - gCaptain: Iran Blacklists 46 Ships On Hormuz ‘Non-Compliant’ List
• [2] 2026-08-24 - Al Jazeera: Yemen’s Houthis report attack on Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea
• [3] 2026-08-22 - Al-Monitor: Iran grants permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through Hormuz

Iran

• [4] 2026-08-24 - IRNA, Iranian state: Yemeni army targets Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea
• [5] 2026-08-23 - IRNA, Iranian state: Persian Gulf Strait Authority warns violating ships will face ‘fines, detention, confiscation’

US

• [6] 2026-08-24 - Defense News: Two US tanker aircraft leave Bulgaria a month after deployment upset Iran
• [7] 2026-08-22 - USNI News: 2 Mariners Killed in Strait of Hormuz as Transits See Small Increase

Other archived reporting

Items on this subject with no side recorded against them.

• [8] 2026-08-25 - gCaptain: Commodity Vessel Transits Through Strait of Hormuz Hit Three-Month Low, Data Shows
• [9] 2026-08-23 - outlet not recorded: Yingst reveals ‘SECRET OPERATION’ in Strait of Hormuz
• [10] 2026-08-11 - outlet not recorded: Shipping traffic in Strait of Hormuz falls to 6 vessels
• [11] 2026-07-27 - outlet not recorded: Oil Producers Seek Alternative Routes to Strait of Hormuz - National Association of Manufacturers
• [12] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: The End of the Non-Proliferation Paradigm
• [13] 2026-07-06 - outlet not recorded: Syria’s New Parliament: Networks of War, Politics of Appointment, and the Illusion of Representation
• [14] 2026-06-22 - outlet not recorded: The Strait of Hormuz’s future is unsettled in wake of latest strikes
• [15] 2026-06-14 - outlet not recorded: Hegseth's timeline for Strait of Hormuz is a bit murky
• [16] 2026-06-13 - outlet not recorded: Even With U.S. Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz
• [17] 2026-06-04 - outlet not recorded: Opinion | The Strait of Hormuz Is Getting Less Dire by the Day
• [18] 2026-05-28 - outlet not recorded: A rare look at the Strait of Hormuz from both land and water
• [19] 2026-05-19 - outlet not recorded: Clearing Mines in the Strait of Hormuz: Q&A with Scott Savitz
• ...and 27 more not listed here.

Background

Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

History

• [20] During 2023–2025, 20% of the world's liquefied natural gas and 25% of seaborne oil trade passed through the strait annually. - Wikipedia
• [21] It is a major route of petroleum products for Europe and Asia and is critical for Europe's energy supply. - Wikipedia
• [22] It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points. - Wikipedia
• [23] On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of Oman, with a portion of the southwest of the peninsula under the United Arab Emirates (UAE). - Wikipedia
• [24] The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. - Wikipedia
• [25] The strait is about 104 miles (90 nmi; 167 km) long, with a width varying from about 60 mi (52 nmi; 97 km) to 24 mi (21 nmi; 39 km). - Wikipedia

See also: Timeline: Strait of Hormuz · Iran

Publication history

What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

• rev 1, 2026-08-25 — first published from 16 source(s)
• rev 2, 2026-08-25 — sources changed (16 → 14)
• rev 3, 2026-08-25 — sources changed (14 → 0)
• rev 4, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 5, 2026-08-25 — +19 source(s), Intl, Iran, US added
• rev 6, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 7, 2026-08-25 — +1 source(s)
• rev 8, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 9, 2026-08-25 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 10, 2026-08-25 — +1 source(s)
• rev 11, 2026-08-25 — +12 source(s)
• rev 12, 2026-08-26 — +1 source(s)

Sources

Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

• [1] Iran Blacklists 46 Ships On Hormuz ‘Non-Compliant’ List - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787686101.585988/
• [2] Yemen’s Houthis report attack on Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653664.428478/
• [3] Iran grants permission for a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through Hormuz - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653664.428416/
• [4] Yemeni army targets Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040544/
• [5] Persian Gulf Strait Authority warns violating ships will face ‘fines, detention, confiscation’ - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653495.040484/
• [6] Two US tanker aircraft leave Bulgaria a month after deployment upset Iran - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653856.550937/
• [7] 2 Mariners Killed in Strait of Hormuz as Transits See Small Increase - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787648578.969279/
• [8] Commodity Vessel Transits Through Strait of Hormuz Hit Three-Month Low, Data Shows - https://gcaptain.com/commodity-vessel-transits-through-strait-of-hormuz-hit-three-month-low-data-shows/
• [9] Yingst reveals ‘SECRET OPERATION’ in Strait of Hormuz - https://archive.isnull.dev/archive/1787653856.551712/
• [20] During 2023–2025, 20% of the world's liquefied natural gas and 25% of seaborne oil trade passed through the strait annually. - 1787695518.35744
• [21] It is a major route of petroleum products for Europe and Asia and is critical for Europe's energy supply. - 1787695518.35744
• [22] It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points. - 1787695518.35744
• [23] On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of Oman, with a portion of the southwest of the peninsula under the United Arab Emirates (UAE). - 1787695518.35744
• [24] The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. - 1787695518.35744
• [25] The strait is about 104 miles (90 nmi; 167 km) long, with a width varying from about 60 mi (52 nmi; 97 km) to 24 mi (21 nmi; 39 km). - 1787695518.35744

How this page is made

Assembled directly from the war archive: no model writes any part of it, so nothing on it can be invented, mis-summarised or attributed to an outlet that did not say it. The cost is that it does not read as narrative - the archive stores headlines, not article text, and this page does not pretend otherwise. The Background section is not from the war archive: those facts are retrieved from a reference work, archived, and cited individually. Background source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).