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Oman drone attacks.

Elevated · 47/100Insurgencyactive125 dispatches indexedlatest event May 18, 2026
Escalation
47
·Stable · /100
Events · 24h
2
-2 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
8
-5 vs prior 7d
Media divergence
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
Oman
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
328
total events across belligerents · 79 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
NAVAL BLOCKADESTRAIT OF2026-02-142026-04-062026-05-18
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
63
single-side data only
2026-02-092026-05-1121
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week14 weeks
No daily brief has been generated for this conflict yet. Briefs are produced for the highest-activity conflicts first; this one becomes eligible as coverage volume climbs.
Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
SeverityDateEventCountries
9.0May 6Strait of Hormuz ClosureOM
9.0May 1Medicine ShortagesOM
9.0Apr 28Strait of Hormuz ShutdownOM
8.0May 10US downs Iranian oil tankersOM
8.0May 3OPEC+ Oil DecisionOM
8.0May 1Strait of Hormuz BlockadeOM
8.0Apr 27Gulf Region RecessionOM
8.0Apr 24IRGC targets US vessel near OmanOM
8.0Apr 23IRGC targets US vessel near OmanOM
8.0Apr 21Strait of Hormuz DisruptionOM
Top 10 shownFull dataset available via API · contact for access
Top 10
Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
No strategic transfers indexed for the belligerents in this conflict.
Top 10
Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
Iron Ore· Oman Pellet OperationsOmanprocessing
Top 1 shown · global share % = country’s share of worldwide production at this stageFull dataset via API · contact
No dispatches indexed for this conflict in the last 30 days.
Methodology

This brief was drafted daily by Claude Opus/Haiku under an ICD 203 analytic-tradecraft prompt: bottom line up-front, calibrated probability language (“likely,” “highly likely”), explicit confidence levels, and alternative-analysis sections. Drawn from 0 dispatches across 0 publications, stored in our ingestion pipeline across strategic_events, intelligence_events, threat_assessments, and entity_relationships.

Event volume and casualty counts key off OM as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.