Oman on Sunday banned public gatherings in the Gulf Arab state, limited staffing at state entities and shut currency exchange bureaus as part of measures to fight the coronavirus...

Health authorities in Palestine, Oman, Lebanon, and Kuwait reported fresh cases of the novel coronavirus on Saturday. In statements, Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said four new cases were...

Gulf Arab states expanded measures to contain the spread of coronavirus on Sunday with Oman banning open ship-to-ship transfers with Iranian vessels, Abu Dhabi’s bourse closing trading halls and...

British foreign minister Dominic Raab will on Monday begin his first official visit to the Gulf for talks with leaders in Saudi Arabia and Oman, expected to cover trade,...

A number of Gulf states have imposed flight restrictions as they try to deal with new cases of the coronavirus

Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said said on Sunday the government would work to reduce public debt and restructure public institutions and companies to bolster the economy, reports Reuters....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel has broad ties with Arab and Islamic states, Israeli radio in Arabic said. The station reported him saying that there...

The risk of a military confrontation is higher in the Strait of Hormuz than anywhere else in the Gulf region, Oman’s foreign minister said, due in part to the...

Hamas has announced that its leader’s foreign tour will continue throughout 2020 in order to complete a very busy political and speaking schedule. The fact that Ismail Haniyeh will...

  Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel Al-Jubeir has praised the US-drafted Middle East peace plan to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict known as “deal of the...

Oman is honouring Palestine and its capital Jerusalem by issuing commemorative stamps that read “Al Quds – the Capital of Palestine” as part of a collaboration with the Arab...

The late Sultan of Oman, Qaboos Bin Said, offered to mediate direct secret talks between Israel and Iran in 2013, after the rise of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Israel’s...

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday discussed bilateral cooperation regarding the Strait of Hormuz with his Omani counterpart, Yusuf Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah in Tehran, the Tasnim news...

US credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) yesterday praised the rapid and smooth transfer of power in the Sultanate of Oman following the death of Sultan Qaboos, saying...

Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh has been described as “well educated and kind” by a Kuwaiti journalist who bumped into him on a flight to Oman this weekend. Journalist Mubarak...

Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, the new sultan of Oman, received Ismail Haniyeh, chief of Hamas’s Political Bureau, at Al Alam Palace to offer condolences for the death of Sultan...

With his death, the region loses a trusted and seasoned leader who managed to balance ties between two neighbours locked in a regional struggle

A Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was likely brought down by an Iranian missile, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said on Thursday, citing...

Amid simmering tensions between the US and Iran, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be flying to the Middle East tomorrow on a five-day tour to “help stabilise the...

Omani foreign minister, Yusuf bin Alawi, has announced that the United States (US) was seeking to alleviate the current tensions in the Middle East region, Iran’s Islamic Republic News...

Omani Sultan Qaboos Bin Said has approved the 2020 budget with an expected deficit of 2.5 billion Omani rials ($6.5 billion), the official news agency of Oman reported on...

Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said is in a “stable condition” and continuing a program of medical treatment, Omani state television and Reuters reported yesterday, citing a statement from the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested that normalisation and formal peace agreements will be made with several Arab states, last night during at a Likud event in Tel...

Britain’s Royal Navy said on Monday one of its warships had helped to seize a batch of crystal meth worth more than 3.3 million pounds ($4.3 million) from smugglers...

Oman’s Sultan Qaboos will travel to Belgium on Saturday for unspecified medical checks, his court said, Reuters reports. Western-backed Qaboos, 79, has ruled the Arabian peninsula state since he...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that his country had received “secret messages” from the US administration, through European mediators, about launching talks. Rouhani insisted that “this is...

Oman’s Foreign Minister Yousuf bin Alawi met in Tehran on Monday evening with Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani after holding talks with his Iranian counterpart...

The Duke of Cambridge landed in Kuwait for a 4 days trip in the Middle East

Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman on Sunday issued a royal pardon for 332 prisoners, including 142 foreigners, according to the official news agency, reports Anadolu Agency. The pardon...

Oman Oil Minister Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Rumhy said on Sunday that his country has been campaigning for dialogue between Gulf countries and Iran, adding that Muscat has always maintained...

An Israeli television report revealed that an agreement had been reached between the Israeli occupation and the Gulf States not to launch hostilities against each other, in preparation for...

The electoral process of the Omani Shura Council has begun Saturday morning, as voters started casting their ballots in the 110 polling stations, reported the official Oman News Agency...