The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, who seized power during a 1970s palace coup, passed away at the age of 79 on Saturday, according to the country's state-run news agency. His cause of death was ...

Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who died on Friday, brought Oman into the modern age and made the Iran deal possible.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman’s new ruler, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, vowed Saturday to uphold his predecessor Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s foreign policy approach, which ...

The Gulf has produced some remarkable cultural projects, but the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman felt different.

Sultan Qaboos, ruler of Oman for almost 50 years, has died The popular sultan modernised Oman and played an outsize role in world diplomacy ...

Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast’s longest-ruling monarch who carefully balanced diplomatic ties between Iran and the U.S., died late Friday at 79.

Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman died Friday at a particularly unsettled moment in the Persian Gulf region. The late sultan played an important role in regional diplomacy. He helped facilitate the ...

In the first two years of the Trump administration, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the late ruler of Oman, confronted a stark situation: Iran-backed Houthi rebels were fighting on his doorstep in Yemen ...