Oil tanker hit off Oman coast after drones strike Duqm port

A Palau-flagged oil tanker was hit off Oman's Musandam peninsula on Sunday injuring four people.

1news.media citing Reuters, reports that the country's maritime security centre said, following drone strikes on the Gulf country's commercial port of Duqm.

The incidents mark the first time targets in or near Oman have been hit following a wave of retaliatory strikes by Tehran on Gulf states after joint U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran that have plunged the region into a new war.