Oman announced Saturday culture minister Haitham bin Tariq Al Said as the new ruler of the Gulf Arab country, hours after Muscat announced death of longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos at the age of 79. Qaboos, the Middle East’s longest-ruling monarch, seized power in a 1970 palace coup. He was known ...
Iran says a Ukrainian plane which crashed outside Tehran this week had flown close to a sensitive military site and been brought down due to human error “at a time of crisis caused by US adventurism.” In a statement issued on Saturday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of ...