DUBAI (Reuters) - Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who died late on Friday, transformed Oman during his 49-year reign from a poverty-stricken country torn by dissent into a prosperous state and an ...

Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said died on Friday evening, state media said early on Saturday. Western-backed Qaboos, 79, had ruled the Gulf Arab state since he took over in a bloodless coup in 1970 with ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington DC [USA], Jan 12: US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo condoled the death of Oman's Sultan Qaboos Bin Said al Said, who passed away at the age of 79, and said that the King loved the Omani ...

The College of William & Mary has received a gift from His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman, to establish the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professorship in Middle East Studies, officials ...

Omani nationals living in the UAE react to the demise of Sultan Qaboos Also In This Package New Sultan of Oman: Haitham Bin Tariq Al Said Qaboos: 'The Sultan of loyalty, love, wisdom is gone' In ...