The Gulf
Strait of Hormuz Shockwave
Tehran claims a prize catch: the Revolutionary Guard says it trapped a U.S. unmanned submarine at the mouth of the strait. The Pentagon says the drone broke.
The Rocket News · Strait of Hormuz · September 8, 2026
Desk
War
The shooting. The strait. The other fronts. Kinetic notes live here.
The Gulf
Houthis set Saudi oil ablaze. 73 wounded. Brent tests $100.
Missiles and drones on four southern cities. Aramco sites on fire. Trump says the pump will fall when America wins.
Video · Firstpost
Kyiv
Witkoff and Kushner went to Kyiv after Moscow. They brought no breakthrough.
Trump’s envoys made their first wartime visit. Ukraine wants talks and air defenses. NPR: nothing new came off the plane.
Video · CBS Evening News
The Gulf
Iran says it will draw an exclusion zone outside Hormuz. The details come later.
Mohsen Rezaei: ships that try the strait go on a sanctions list. Tehran claimed an unmanned U.S. hull. CENTCOM called that a lie.
Video · CBS Evening News
The Gulf
CENTCOM hits three Iranian tankers after missiles at two U.S. ships
Adm. Brad Cooper: if you shoot at two of ours, we take out three of yours. No Americans were harmed. Kharg Island still stands.
Video · CBS Evening News
Nuclear
Trump says Pickaxe Mountain is next. Tehran says a strike would be a new war.
The Oval Office threat is “very soon.” An Iranian tanker off Kharg Island was hit hours later, Tehran says. The mountain sits next to Natanz.
Video · NDTV
Arms
Washington approves a $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia
Bombs, guidance kits, and other equipment for a kingdom that has been hit in the same war the president calls small.
Video · PBS NewsHour
Middle East
The United States and Iran are trading strikes again. The ceasefire was a pause, not a peace.
Trump says more is coming. Tehran says it is hitting back. The strait is once more the fuse.
Video · Firstpost
Middle East
Both sides accuse the other of breaking the Hormuz ceasefire
Iran says the United States hit a tanker. Washington blames Tehran. The strait does not care who started the press release.
Video · Kompas.com