IRGC claims another US unmanned vessel strike as Houthis seize Yemen's Mocha port

Iran's campaign against unmanned and commercial vessels continued, while a second maritime front hardened further south. The IRGC said its navy struck a US 'Saildrone-type' unmanned surface vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, framing the action as thwarting the vessel's 'aggressive mission' — the US did not confirm the claim. Separately, the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency reported that projectiles hit two vessels off the coast of Oman, continuing the pattern of unattributed or disputed strikes in the strait's wider approaches. South of Hormuz, Iran-backed Houthi forces seized the Yemeni port of Mocha as part of a broader drive to expand control over the Red Sea coast — a second active maritime flashpoint developing in parallel with the Hormuz standoff, though at this point still short of the fuller Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint control Houthi forces would establish in the days that followed. On Ukraine, Russian combat losses reached approximately 1,503,880 as of Sep 11 (+1,490), with continued heavy fighting across multiple front sectors.