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Oman’s role in the war in Yemen offers insight into its potential for mediating the Qatar crisis. During my recent research in Oman, it was clear that while it has benefited from Qatar’s ...
SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security officials say that Oman has closed its two border crossings with Yemen over fears of militant attacks, leaving Yemenis largely sealed off from the outside world ...
Packing winds of 115 mph, tropical cyclone Mekunu is set to wallop southwest Oman and eastern Yemen on Friday night and into the weekend. Since Thursday, the very severe cyclonic storm rapidly ...
Sharing a 300km (187-mile) border with Yemen, Oman will always have vested interests in its neighbour. “Yemen is the sultanate’s back yard and ...
MIAMI -- Ten prisoners from Yemen who were held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released and sent to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman for resettlement, officials said Thursday, portraying it ...
Oman has awarded a contract to a local engineering company to conduct a feasibility study for interconnecting its power grid with Yemen. Monenco Consulting Engineers (Oman) won the contract from ...
In February 2019, Oman’s then-foreign minister, Yusuf bin Alawi, said that Muscat disagreed with Abu Dhabi’s actions in Yemen because the Omanis do not “push forward and cause wars or ...
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement has engaged in Oman-mediated talks with "international parties" about its operations in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, a Houthi spokesman said on Saturday ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Oman says it helped negotiate the release of an Indonesian and a Malaysian held in Yemen amid the war in the Arab world's poorest nation. The state-run Oman News ...
The US and Yemen's Houthi rebels reached a ceasefire agreement to ensure safe passage in the Red Sea after weeks of conflict, mediator Oman said Tuesday. President Donald Trump said the Iran ...