By reducing reliance on Omani ports and land routes, the leverage Muscat holds over regional trade can be diminished, further ...

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 ...

Yemen's Houthis will not "dial down" their action against Israeli shipping in the Red Sea in response to U.S. military pressure or appeals from the group's allies such as Iran, the Yemeni militant ...

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

Chinese naval forces will join warships from Iran and Russia in a trilateral exercise near Iran this week, according to ...

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 ...

“[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 ...

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

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

This is a White House that says it wants to avoid war. One non-kinetic option is to put pressure on the Sultanate of Oman to shutter its Houthi headquarters. The Sultanate provides sanctuary for ...