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 ...

MUSCAT (Reuters) - Omani leader Sultan Qaboos made his first public appearance in nearly a year on Friday, attending annual National Day celebrations. Wearing a military uniform, Qaboos appeared in ...

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Omani Sultan Qaboos is gone, but his legacy of peace lives on. The Gulf’s longest-serving ruler, in power for half a century, finally succumbed to illness late on ...

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 ...

On learning that Sultan Qaboos bin Sa’id al-Sa’id had passed away in the early hours of 11 January, there could hardly have seemed a trickier moment for Oman to lose its late sultan than a period of ...

The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, an esteemed mediator and broker in a deeply divided region, has died. He was 79. The long-time sultan has ruled over Oman, a Gulf state situated on the ...

Delivering the opening address of the 5 th Term of the Council of Oman, Qaboos observed, “We are looking forward to a qualitative shift in the national work to be carried out by the Council of Oman in ...

His Majesty Sultan Qaboos has underlined the need for creating jobs for Omanis in all fields to ensure not only self-reliance but improvement in living standards. Add as a preferred source on Google ...

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