“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...

November was an extraordinary month for normalisation between Arab states and Israel. You would think that Israel had settled its disputes with its neighbours — perhaps accepting and implementing...

Member of Hamas’ political bureau Mahmoud Al-Zahar announced that he is heading a Palestinian parliamentary delegation on a foreign tour aimed at mobilising support for the Palestinian people. In...

From Khartoum, where the Arab summit in late August 1967 announced its Three No’s: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with it, a leader...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has been marginalised as critical decisions about the oil market are taken by a troika of the United States, Russia and Saudi...

Given the increasing possibility of running for early elections, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made sure to achieve public and media achievements y means of revealing relations that...

Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, Ziad Al-Nakhaleh, called on the Palestinian Authority to end its “hostile actions” against the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian resistance. Speaking in...

The Israeli Minister of Economy, Eli Cohen received an official invitation to visit Bahrain in mid-April next year, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (Makan) reported Sunday evening. Cohen will participate...

Hamas described Arab states’ efforts to normalise ties with Israel as “a stab in the back of the just Palestinian cause”, a spokesman said. In a press release, official...

Yedioth Ahronoth predicted Wednesday that the Kingdom of Bahrain would sign a peace treaty with Israel next year. The Israeli newspaper quoted Rabbi Marc Schneier saying: “The Gulf states...

Gulf nationals have renewed their calls to the governments of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to “halt all forms of normalisation with Israel and activate the necessary boycott laws.” Gulf activists have continued their recently...

Simple logic dictates that the Arab regimes associated with the US are engaged in an objective alliance with Israel given Israel’s close relationship with Washington. Anwar Sadat realised this...

Every summer, there's a big traditional horse race in Oman. Check out these lovely pictures of the events...

Israel’s Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen has been invited to attend a conference in Bahrain to discuss cooperation between the two countries. Cohen received an official invitation...

Israel is expected to present a railway project linking it and the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf region, including Saudi Arabia, according to the Russian news agency RT. The...

Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf Bin Alawi justified the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his country by saying that the Sultanate is proposing ideas to help the...

Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sports, Miri Regev, was not wrong when she said that the country is experiencing an “Israeli Spring”. This minister in particular experienced things she...

Oman’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Dr Ahmed Mohammed Al-Futaisi said Sunday that his country; “the host state” of an international transport conference had to invite Israeli Minister of...

 A member of Hamas’ political bureau yesterday denounced what he described as “a wave of normalisation by several Arab countries with the Israeli occupation.” “It is bizarre that there...

The next round of economic sanctions on Iran, which will start going into effect on November 4, will mainly target the country’s oil and gas industries. These sanctions were...

An Israeli film screened at a film festival in Iraqi Kurdistan has been removed from the official competition list due to “regional complications”. The removal comes just one week...

This week, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) voted to reverse its recognition of the State of Israel until Israel recognises the State of Palestine. Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President...

In life, there are funny ironies and there are sad ones. What we are experiencing today with the accelerated normalisation between some Gulf countries and Israel – despite their...

What prompted the Sultanate of Oman to receive the Israeli Prime Minister at this particular time? Three hypotheses were developed in response to this question and as an attempt...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprise visit to Oman last Friday has predictably elicited widespread favourable coverage on the Israeli media. Notwithstanding this fanfare, there is no denying that...