A security source has reported that the port of Salalah was targeted by two unmanned aerial vehicles. The incident resulted in moderate injuries to an expatriate worker at the port and caused limited damage to one crane within the port facilities.
The Sultanate of Oman reiterates its strong condemnation of these hostile attacks and affirms its commitment to taking all necessary measures to uphold the nation's security and ensure the safety of all individuals on its soil.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff said he believes Iran will hold talks with Washington "this week" as the US-Israeli war against Tehran entered its second month.
The war began on February 28 when the United States and Israel launched air strikes across Iran, killing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sending shockwaves across the globe.
A month later, the conflict showed no sign of ending, with US-Israeli strikes hitting two Iranian nuclear facilities on Friday and a journalist in Tehran reporting around 10 intense blasts and a plume of black smoke early on Saturday.
The diplomatic hopes came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio left G7 talks in Paris to declare Washington expects its military campaign to prove victorious within weeks.
"When we are done with them here in the next couple of weeks, they will be weaker than they've been in recent history," he told reporters.
AIRPORT HIT
Kuwait International Airport was targeted by multiple drone attacks on Saturday that caused significant damage to its radar system but resulted in no casualties, state news agency Kuna reported, citing the country's Civil Aviation Authority.
Kuwait's fire department, meanwhile, said a fire that broke out in fuel tanks at the airport last Wednesday following a previous drone attack had been extinguished after operations lasting 58 consecutive hours, Kuna reported on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Yemen's Ansar Allah fighters on Saturday launched missiles at Israel, their first such attack since the start of the Iran war, heightening the risk that a conflict now in its fifth week could expand further across the region.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke to Pakistan's Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, whose government hosts a meeting with the Turkish and Saudi foreign ministers on Sunday to seek to ease regional tensions.
But there is no sign of an immediate diplomatic breakthrough and the war has spread across the Middle East, killing thousands and hitting the world economy with the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies.
On Saturday, Israel said it had carried out a wave of attacks on Tehran, targeting what the military said were infrastructure sites belonging to Iran's government.
It also hit targets in Lebanon, where it has resumed its war against Hezbollah, killing three Lebanese journalists in a strike on a media vehicle, Lebanon's Al Manar TV reported, as well as a Lebanese soldier.
DEFENCE DEAL
Ukraine on Saturday agreed to cooperate on defence with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to both countries amid escalating tensions in the region.
Qatar's defence ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Doha and Kyiv have signed a defence cooperation agreement which includes the exchange of expertise in countering missiles and unmanned aerial systems.
"We are talking about a 10-year partnership. We have already signed the agreement with Saudi Arabia, and we have just signed a similar 10-year agreement with Qatar," Zelensky told reporters during an online briefing.
"We will also sign a 10-year agreement with the UAE. It will happen within the next several days."
Zelensky had earlier been to the UAE and met President Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan as the two countries agreed to cooperate in the fields of security and defence.
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