DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast’s longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully ...

MUSCAT: The proceedings of the first International Conference on the Archaeology of the Oman Peninsula began on Sunday at Sultan Qaboos ...

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 not ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast's longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while ...

Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said (R) walks with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani upon Rouhani's arrival in Muscat March 12, 2014. REUTERS/Sultan Al Hasani MUSCAT (Reuters) - Oman's Sultan Qaboos, in ...

Oman named a new ruler Saturday, hours after it announced the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, state media reported. Qaboos was 79, and ruled Oman for five decades before his death Friday. He ...

“We’re getting close.” Those were the last words I said to Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said. It was the fall of 2013, during the final stretch of secret talks with Iran. Brokered and hosted by the Omanis ...

HIS FUNERAL is likely to be a scene unimaginable almost anywhere else. Among the foreign dignitaries who will mourn Sultan Qaboos of Oman, whose death was announced on January 10th, will be those from ...

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