Oman's finance ministry has told all ministries and civilian government units to reduce approved liquidity for development budgets by 10 percent, state media said Wednesday. It also said the creation of government companies performing business activities would cease and priority would be...

Armed men boarded a vessel at anchor in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday but the ship was later released, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said. “Vessel and crew are safe,” it said in an updated advisory, urging all vessels in the vicinity to remain vigilant. UKMTO...

Bahrain has turned a car park near the capital Manama into an intensive care unit with 130 beds for patients infected with the novel coronavirus, in a first in the Gulf. The new ICU in the covered car park was set up as a precautionary measure in case of a spike in cases of the COVID-19...

Bahrain said Monday that state-owned Gulf Air has begun flying to Iran to repatriate Bahrainis stranded there due to the coronavirus crisis, the first direct flights between the two countries in four years. More than a thousand Bahrainis, most of them pilgrims visiting Shi'ite Muslim...