Oman announced Saturday culture minister Haitham bin Tariq Al Said as the new ruler of the Gulf Arab country, hours after Muscat announced death of longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos at the age of 79. Qaboos, the Middle East’s longest-ruling monarch, seized power in a 1970 palace coup. He was known ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held separate meetings with his Omani counterpart and the spokesperson for Yemen’s Ansarullah movement during a visit to Muscat. The second round of negotiations between Zarif and the Sultanate of Oman’s Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah was held in ...
