Oman has received $1 billion in direct financial aid from Qatar as the sultanate tries to mitigate its economic crisis which has been worsened by the impact of the...

The Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Hamad Al-Khalili, on Monday declared his full support for the boycott of French products following French President Emmanuel...

Oman will be the next Arab country to normalize relations with Israel, according to Israeli media on Sunday, Anadolu reports. Israeli officials believe that Oman will soon sign a...

The Authorities in Arab countries, particularly Jordan, the UAE, the Sultanate of Oman and Algeria, have decided to ban the Friday prayer under the pretext of limiting the spread...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Oman and Pakistan in the field of military cooperation. The memorandum was signed at the headquarters of the Omani Ministry...

Health authorities in Oman confirmed 30 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, while Libya reported 26 fatalities, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the Omani Health Ministry said 1,657 new...

The US has urged countries not to restore diplomatic relations with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad or upgrade their economic cooperation with it. The Al-Hurra news channel quoted a...

Local health authorities on Tuesday recorded more coronavirus cases and deaths in Libya, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, and Kuwait, reports Anadolu Agency. In Libya, the government’s National...

Syria yesterday announced that it had officially received the credentials of the first Omani ambassador to the country since the revolution against the regime began in 2011. Local media...

An Israeli newspaper has reported that Sudan and Oman have postponed normalising ties with Israel until after the US elections, Rai Al-Youm reported on Friday. Reporting Israeli newspaper Maariv,...

Iran yesterday denied media reports claiming Tehran was holding secret talks with the United States in the Sultanate of Oman, Fars news agency reported. Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Saeed...

The Sultanate of Oman is willing to normalise ties with Israel but is hesitant that its relationship with Iran would be severely harmed if it made the move, Israel Hayom reported...

Britain announced on Friday that it will invest £23.8 million ($30 million) to expand the size of its base in the strategic Omani port of Duqm, located in the...

Oman welcomes Bahrain’s decision to normalise relations with Israel and hopes it will contribute to Israeli-Palestinian peace, Oman state media said on Sunday, Reuters reported. Bahrain on Friday became the second...

Health authorities in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Oman on Thursday confirmed additional fatalities due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Anadolu Agency reports. Iraq’s Health Ministry said 82 more people have...

The US government on Friday announced it had seized three websites connected to alleged front companies used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to arrange “a multimillion-dollar fuel shipment” bound...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met the Sultan of Oman on Thursday as part of a Middle East tour following a US-brokered deal on normalising relations between Israel...

The number of Oman’s expatriate public sector workers have “declined remarkably” over the past year, the Sultanate’s National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) announced yesterday. “The number of...

Informed sources said that Jared Kushner, the senior adviser and son-in-law of the US President Donald Trump, will visit Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman in early September to persuade...

Tribal militants in Yemen’s eastern governorate of Al-Mahra have prevented Saudi forces from reaching a border crossing port with the Sultanate of Oman. Local sources were quoted as saying...

Israel has sold spyware to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain helping them monitor the activities of dissidents, Haaretz reported yesterday. According to the paper, the Israeli firm NSO Group Technologies,...

The Managing director of Iranian Ports and Maritime Organisation, Mohammad Rastad, said yesterday that Tehran is considering building another oceanic port on the Makran coastal strip on the Gulf...

The Sultan of Oman, Haitham Bin Tariq, yesterday named the new foreign minister and finance ministers in a cabinet reshuffle, a day after the Minister of State for Foreign...

Oman’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has said that his country’s borders are open to all Yemenis leaving and returning home. “Our borders are open to all Yemenis who go...

A study published yesterday in the journal PLOS One has revealed that archaeologists have unearthed 8,000-year-old stone fluted points in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically in Yemen and Oman. The...

Oman has cancelled a major project with the United Arab Emirates worth billions of dollars, Arab sources have reported, highlighting the growing tension between the two countries. Oman’s new...

Local health authorities in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Oman, Kuwait, UAE and Qatar confirmed new fatalities from the novel coronavirus on Friday. The Iraqi Health Ministry said 90 patients...

Omani sites and forums have reported news of an amnesty issued by Sultan Haitham Bin Tariq Al-Said for a number of political oppositionists residing in London and other Western...

Oman will ban travel between all its governorates from July 25 to August 8, a period that includes a Muslim holiday, to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus,...

The death toll from the novel coronavirus continued to rise in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman on Thursday, as the Middle East struggles to combat the spread...

Health authorities in Oman and Palestine confirmed additional fatalities due to the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the Omani Health Ministry said four people...

A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced an Omani man to life imprisonment in May this year based on a seriously unfair trial, the UK-based Human Rights Watch...