NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Elizabeth Dickinson about the death of Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said. The Death Of Middle East's Mediator, Omani Sultan Qaboos MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now we'd ...

Sultan Qaboos, the longest-reigning leader of the modern Arab world, has died at the age of 79, the royal court said Saturday. "With great sorrow and deep sadness... the royal court mourns His Majesty ...

Oman's Sultan Qaboos, who died on Friday aged 79, transformed the former Arabian Peninsula backwater into a modern state and sought-after mediator while shielding the sultanate from a region in ...

Qaboos bin Said Al Said, the former Sultan of Oman, had an estimated net worth of $900 million at the time of his death on ...