On Sunday, a spokesman for Houthi rebels group, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sarea, said ballistic missiles and drones hit the an Aramco oil facility in Ras Tanura, a major port on Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf coast and one of its largest refineries, as well as military positions in nearby Dammam.

The Saudi energy ministry said a petroleum tank farm at its Ras Tanura port was attacked in the morning by a drone from the sea, and later in the evening, shrapnel from a ballistic missile fell near a Saudi Aramco residential compound in Dhahran, where the state oil giant is headquartered.

Ras Tanura is one of the world’s largest oil shipping ports and the Aramco complex in Dhahran houses workers and their families from all over the world. 

The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen, strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist attack and the attempt to target the Ras Tanura Port in the Eastern Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Neither of the facilities targeted suffered any injuries, loss of life, or property damage, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

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