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...

The Palestinian Authority (PA), Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas was received by the envoy of Omani Sultan Qaboos Bin Said on Sunday. This visit came...

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman on Sunday congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the 95th anniversary of Turkish Republic Day. Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz and his son Crown...

Last Friday the Arab world spoke Hebrew, as three Arab countries raised the Israeli flag. These flags were raised in Qatar as it hosted the Israeli gymnastics team, in...

Oman described Israel as an accepted Middle East state on Saturday, a day after hosting a surprise visit by its prime minister that Washington said could help regional peace...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rounded up a secret visit to the Sultanate of Oman after receiving an invitation by its Sultan, Arab 48 reported on Friday. Netanyahu’s...

Detained Yemeni Defence Minister Major General Mahmoud Al-Subaihi will be allowed to contact his family after Oman made a deal with his jailors. Under the agreement between Oman and...

The unprecedented wave of repression and tyranny that the Arab world is currently witnessing, which has reached the level of blind brutality, cannot be a good thing for the...

I do not know what is happening in our miserable Arab world. Our beloved Syria is burning and has been destroyed so severely as if by an earthquake at...

The first round of what US President Donald Trump called “the most biting sanctions ever imposed” against Tehran went into effect on August 7. “Anyone doing business with Iran...

Iran’s utmost authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic had nothing to be concerned about, a report on his official website said on Wednesday, as the...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is expected to meet with the American President Donald Trump to discuss the latter’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal and the threat of placing new...

The flow of American statements confirming its desire for unconditional dialogue with Iran hasn’t stopped. The president and his senior aides haven’t stopped talking about their desire and willingness...

The Sultanate of Oman is preparing for a joint military exercise dubbed “Saif Sareea 3” (Swift Sword-3) in collaboration with the British armed forces in the Arabian Gulf later...