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...

King Abdullah of Jordan met with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia yesterday to discuss the ongoing protests in his country. Jordan...

Deputy Chairman of the Public Authority for Craft Industries of Oman Issam Bin Ali Al-Rawas warned that his country’s patience with its neighbours is waning in reference to the...

Two people, including a child, were killed and three others went missing in the Omani province of Dhofar after Cyclone Mekunu hit the southern region of the Gulf Arab...

Yemen declared a state of emergency on Socotra today after a tropical storm flooded several villages and capsized boats on the island and left at least 17 people missing,...

Thirsty Middle Eastern and North African countries could tap into their solar-energy potential to cope with fresh water scarcity, according to resource experts. Water could be saved by switching...

UN envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths arrived in Omani capital Muscat today as part of a second regional tour aimed at reviving stalled talks between Yemen’s warring rivals. Sources...

Saudi Arabia has ranked third across the world with military spending which reached $69.4 billion in 2017. It replaces Russia, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in...

Official data that has recently been published showed rising of gasoline prices sold domestically in the UAE, Oman and Qatar in May, compared to the previous month. This coincided...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Monday that it has evacuated 76 illegal Ethiopian immigrants from Yemen on Sunday. “They were stranded in Aden, southern Yemen, and...

The United Nation’s envoy to Yemen plans to unveil a new framework to end the civil war which has entered its third year, Martin Griffiths told the Security Council...

For 60 years, cruelty to animals on live export ships has been kept secret

The United Nation’s special envoy to Yemen is vying for parties to the civil war to enter peace talks in Oman, Gulf News reported yesterday. In a press conference...

The Managing Director of the state owned Oman Petroleum Development Company (PDO) Raoul Restucci announced yesterday the discovery of a large gas reservoir with recoverable amounts estimated at more...

The UAE has once again angered Oman after the issue of a promotional video by Al-Futtaim Emirati Company showing the Musandam Governorate within the UAE’s borders. The video was...

Saudi Arabia and its adversaries in Yemen’s armed Houthi movement are holding secret talks to try to end a three-year-old war that has unleashed the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,...

The White House on Tuesday hosted 19 nations, including Israel and Arab Gulf states, to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but the Palestinian Authority boycotted the meeting, angered...

Tehran announced on Friday the signing of deals for credit lines with European and Asian banks amounting to $55.3 billion, Quds Press has reported. “Developing relations with European banks...

A recent call by the Sultanate of Oman to hold a round of peace talks is the latest political development in a brutal civil war which has already claimed...

Saudi Arabia has become the biggest deal-maker in the Middle East after its Public Investment Fund (PIF) spent about $54 billion on investments last year, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday....

“Inequalities” between men and women in Yemen have been “exacerbated” as a result of the ongoing crisis in the country and resulted in the “rise” of negative coping mechanisms,...