The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, or GCC, have stood out in recent years for successfully balancing their relationships with competing global powers in order to better position ...

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The events unfolding in the Gulf of Oman come on the heels of an apparent suicide attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman.

Oman has agreed to ease regulations for Indian firms under the new Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), allowing up to 50% of their workforce to be employed from India. The agreement, ...

Tensions across vital energy routes are flaring again after Iran detained a foreign tanker in the Gulf of Oman, holding 18 ...

Those detained include the ship’s captain, though the vessel’s identity and the crew members’ nationalities were not ...

The recent India-Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) throws open the door to a $12.5 billion India ...

U.S. military officials released a video showing what they said was an Iranian patrol crew removing an unexploded mine from a tanker that was attacked in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. Photo: U.S. Navy ...

Oman has been named the most affordable country to live in across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for 2025, according to the latest Cost of Living Index released by data platform Numbeo. Long known ...

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 ...

One place where the fall-out from the Gulf's airline boom has been felt more than any other is at the home of the region's original network carrier, Gulf Air. Once the Gulf's primary international ...