Sultan Qaboos of Oman is in "good health", the country's foreign minister said Thursday, as rumours circulated that the 75-year-old monarch had been hospitalised. "He is well and thanks to God, he is ...

MUSCAT (Reuters) - Oman's Sultan Qaboos, in Germany for medical treatment since July, said on Wednesday he would miss annual celebrations of his birthday this month in the Arabian peninsula country he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...