Bounded crisis tracker

Strait of Hormuz security tracker

Name: World Monitor crisis tracker reference: Hormuz and Gulf security
Creator: World Monitor
Published: 2026-09-08

Monthly conflict pulse for Iran, Iraq and the six Gulf Cooperation Council littoral states around the Strait of Hormuz.

This tracker uses a fixed eight-country boundary around the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. It provides country-level humanitarian conflict context; tanker traffic, maritime warnings and vessel disruptions remain separate live signals on the chokepoint pages and dashboard.

Latest maintained month

Country conflict pulse

Published pulse

Metrics are country-level records for the latest available HAPI/HDX reference month. Missing countries are unavailable, not zero. A combined total is withheld when reference periods differ.

Recorded events839

Recorded fatalities90

Political violence events165

Reference period2026-08-01

Iran
518 events · 51 fatalities · 2026-08-01
Iraq
257 events · 37 fatalities · 2026-08-01
Saudi Arabia
10 events · 0 fatalities · 2026-08-01
Qatar
0 events · 0 fatalities · 2026-08-01
Kuwait
4 events · 0 fatalities · 2026-08-01
United Arab Emirates
1 events · 0 fatalities · 2026-08-01
Oman
13 events · 2 fatalities · 2026-08-01
Bahrain
36 events · 0 fatalities · 2026-08-01

8 countries available Published pulse Sep 8, 2026, 3:30 AM UTC

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Maintained month snapshot

This page records the committed 2026-08-01 HAPI/HDX country summaries published September 8, 2026. JavaScript can refresh newer values; the numbers above remain available without it.

Source: docs/snapshots/crawlable-live-pulse-2026-09-08.json. Combined totals are withheld when covered countries report different reference months.

Coverage boundary

Iran (IR), Iraq (IQ), Saudi Arabia (SA), Qatar (QA), Kuwait (KW), United Arab Emirates (AE), Oman (OM), Bahrain (BH). Events outside this list are not included in the live totals on this page.

How to read this tracker

Use these monthly country summaries as a bounded pulse, then inspect the dashboard for event-level context, map layers, and other independent signals. The figures are not forecasts and should not be interpreted as a complete casualty or incident ledger.

Download: tracker.json. Scope source: shared/crawlable-crises.json. Maintained metrics: HAPI/HDX humanitarian conflict summaries from the UN OCHA Humanitarian API.