Oman

Some 28 per cent of the Arab youth are unemployed, the highest rate in the world, Alkhaleejonline.net said a new study revealed. According to the report issued by the...

Momentum is building for economic relations between the Gulf states and Turkey, economists told the Anadolu Agency today. "Trade relations, which have been poor in the past, are improving...

United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed called on Friday delegations from the Houthis and the supporters of the former Yemeni president for a meeting in...

The Sultanate of Oman will not participate in the Joint Arab Force, Foreign Minister Youssef Bin Alawi announced on Monday. "Omani armed forces are forbidden to operate outside the...

Italian cyber security firm Hacking Team, which sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies, effectively helping them to "spy" on certain targets, has itself become...

The US Department of Defence has announced the transfer of seven detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman. According to a Pentagon statement on Friday (local time) the detainees...

It has been 48 years since the Arab armies, i.e. the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies, were defeated by the Israeli army that occupied Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank...

The best way to explain Oman, both historically and in the midst of the current crisis facing the Gulf, is to say it puts its long term security first....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said he welcomed the general idea behind the Arab Peace Initiative originally proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, however it contains many problems....

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi have announced that the two countries have agreed to demarcate a previously undefined stretch of maritime border....

A summit meeting between the US and Arab leaders ended Thursday with a US pledge to assist Gulf allies against external threats by any means, including militarily. President Barack...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Washington and the Gulf states are hammering out a new set of security initiatives in the Middle East to...

The current historical moment we are witnessing is a rare moment of Arab interaction with Iran. The Islamic Republic is currently present in almost every heated arena in the...

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi has said that Tehran supports an "objective" Yemeni dialogue sponsored by Oman. During a visit to Tunis to discuss the Yemeni issue, Sarmadi...

An Omani court jailed a prominent human rights activist for three years on Sunday. Said Jadad was found guilty of a range of offences including "undermining the state". According...

Science fiction from the Arab world has been capturing the attention of western audiences as of late. This year, sci-fi across the fields of literature, film and art in...

At our present time, the most influential criterion of evaluating people in the Arab world is the credit in their bank account and how much money they possess. The...

Oman and Qatar helped the rapid evacuation of American diplomats in Yemen, German news agency DPA reported the US Department of State saying yesterday. The US embassy vehicles used...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday that plunging oil prices will cost Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states up to $300 billion this year. This, claimed the IMF,...

Iran's deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs has called on the countries in the Middle East to take steps to make sure that no oil producer can...

It seems likely that Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said is approaching his final days in this mortal realm. As NPR reported, the 74-year-old leader of the tiny – often...

According to Anadolu news agency, the Gulf countries have agreed to hold the upcoming Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Doha following a surprise summit that was held in...

The Ministry of Interior in Gaza said that the Egyptian government allowed an Omani delegation to enter the Gaza Strip via Rafah for 30 minutes on Thursday evening, allowing...

The Ministry of Interior in Gaza said that the Egyptian government allowed an Omani delegation to enter the Gaza Strip via Rafah for 30 minutes yesterday evening, allowing them...

The interior ministers of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf States called on the Shia Al-Houthi group in Yemen to return all headquarters and official...

The Moroccan Foreign Exchange Office, the institution in charge of overseeing trade and economic exchanges with foreign countries, said on Thursday that trade between Morocco and the Gulf Cooperation...

Omani Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah said yesterday that Israeli attempts to impose new realities on the ground will not bring it any stability. In...

Gulf sources told Rai Al-Youm newspaper that the main objective of the sudden visit of Omani Foreign Minister Youssef Bin Alawi to Riyadh is mediation to mend relations between...

While the GCC seemed shocked when Oman threatened to pull out of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), if any union went ahead, the announcement should have come as no...