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US-SANCTIONED OIL TANKER ATTACKED OFF OMAN COAST
A Palau-flagged oil tanker under U.S. sanctions was hit on Sunday, March 1, 2026, off Oman's Musandam peninsula, injuring four people, the country's maritime security centre said, without specifying what hit the vessel.
The attack followed earlier drone strikes elsewhere in the Gulf country, at the commercial port of Duqm on the Arabian Sea.
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.
The 20-person crew of the Skylight tanker was evacuated after the attack, which occurred about 5 nautical miles north of Musandam's Khasab Port, on the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the Oman Maritime Security Centre said in a post on X.
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