Iran and Oman will be holding joint military exercises within the coming days, in an effort to build relations. Speaking at a meeting in Muscat consisting of 120 representatives...

Egypt has pulled out of the US effort to forge an “Arab NATO” with key Arab allies, according to four sources familiar with the decision, in a blow to...

The Omani Criminal Court has sentences five Emiratis and one Omani to varying prison terms after convicting them of spying, journalist Mokhtar Al-Hinaie said on Twitter. “A majority of...

Hamas has decried a call by a top Omani diplomat for Arabs to ease Israel’s fears for its future in the region. Speaking on the sidelines of the World...

Former Jordanian MP Hind Al-Fayiz said that a number of Gulf States “put pressure on Jordan and blockaded it in order for it to accept the ‘deal of the...

The United States clinched a strategic port deal with Oman on Sunday which US officials say will allow the US military better access the Gulf region and reduce the...

Omani Foreign Minister Yousuf Bin Alawi remarked on the arrest of an Emirati spying cell in the country saying “these things happen between neighbours”. Bin Alawi was asked during...

Qatari officials will meet with FIFA’s leadership in Miami on Friday as world football’s governing body discusses the possibility of expanding the 2022 World Cup and adding new host...

The Omani foreign ministry yesterday announced that it had assisted negotiate the release of an Indonesian and a Malaysian held by Houthis in Yemen. “The Sultanate had reached an...

Italy and Estonia are blocking the inclusion of the UAE in an EU blacklist of countries which are deemed tax havens, documents seen by Reuters show. Foreign ministers are...

European Union states have added ten jurisdictions to a draft tax haven blacklist, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bermuda, an EU official told Reuters on Tuesday, in...

Skyline International Foundation said the Omani authorities have arrested and forcibly disappeared social media activists who rejected normalisation with Israel. The foundation, which monitors violations of freedom of expression...

Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf Bin Alawi said yesterday there is no normalisation with Israel, explaining that what is happening is “a peaceful process to find a settlement for the...

US Vice President Mike Pence accused European powers on Thursday of undermining Washington’s crackdown on Iran by trying to break US sanctions against Tehran, in remarks that were likely...

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will travel to at least five Arab countries in late February to brief diplomats on the economic portion of a long-awaited US peace...

Israel’s foreign ministry announced on Tuesday that it had launched a “virtual embassy” to boost dialogue with the Gulf countries. “We are pleased to announce the re-launch of ‘Israel...

The Moroccan government’s spokesperson, Mustapha Al-Khalfi, yesterday denied recent reports, claiming that the North African country was expecting a visit by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a...

The last 7 days in pictures.....

The airlines of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Bahrain are preparing to resume direct air traffic to the Syrian capital of Damascus, the director general of Syrian...

The US troop withdrawal from Syria will not be scuppered despite Turkish threats against Washington’s Kurdish allies there, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, promising to ensure...

The two men in the Trump administration in charge of setting America’s global priorities are crisscrossing the Middle East this week, dividing up an already deeply divided region, trying...

As we approach the final days of 2018, we take a look at some of our favourite animals in the Middle East!

165 km through the vast Omani desert, would you give it a go?

Israel should be careful in its relationship with Gulf countries, the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff Yair Golan warned yesterday. Speaking at a conference in the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic...

“The Sultanate of Oman has been understandable to the dimensions of the war in Syria,” the Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, revealed yesterday. Assad said that Oman did not sever...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted that Arab countries are falling in line and submitting to Israel’s financial and technological superiority. Claiming that Oman had allowed Israeli planes...

A Gulf Arab summit called for regional unity as Bahrain and Qatar traded barbs over the Qatari emir’s decision not to attend the gathering in Saudi Arabia on Sunday...

The first visit by a pope to the Arabian peninsula will take place in February when Francis travels to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Vatican said...

A Houthi delegation arrived in Sweden late on Tuesday to participate in the UN-sponsored peace talks; a delegation member told Anadolu news agency. According to the unnamed member; the...

The Saudi-backed Yemeni government and the Iran-aligned Houthis yesterday agreed on a mass prisoner swap deal, days ahead of the United Nations (UN) peace talks which are due to...

The United Nations special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths arrived in the Houthi-held capital of Sanaa on Monday to accompany the Houthis delegation to Sweden to participate in the...

The United Nations has evacuated 50 wounded Houthis to the Omani capital, Muscat for treatment, Anadolu Agency reported an aviation source as saying. The source who preferred not to...