Oman cannot have it both ways—it cannot benefit from American friendship and assistance while enabling a crisis in the Middle East. A showdown may be brewing in the Middle East. Judging from the ...

Chabahar, Iran’s southernmost port on the Makran coast, connects India with Afghanistan and Central Asia, bypassing Pakistan ...

GENEVA: The Sultanate of Oman participated in the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food as ...

“[Oman] was on good terms with Iran in the years following the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1989) [and] in 2009, Sultan Qaboos was the first foreign leader to visit Iranian President Ahmadinejad followin ...

Oman never took part in any war with the Jewish state and established unofficial trade relations with Israel in the early 2000s. Omani Sultan Qaboos Bin Said welcomed three Israeli prime ministers ...

The social market economy, first pioneered in post-war Germany, is neither a pure free-market system nor a state-controlled ...

It is now typically applied to cooperation between Russia and countries that have supported its war against Ukraine ... out joint drills in the Gulf of Oman in recent years, including in March ...

"They discussed the state of the region, including the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, the need to secure the release of all ...

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