Oman

Oil wealth and responsible management mean the young economies of the Persian Gulf could weather the global financial storm well, despite the hurdles they face. (With Stratfor interactive map) [more]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend the Gulf Cooperation Council summit meeting the week of Dec. 2 in Qatar. [more]

A Category 5 cyclone with winds of up to 195 mph is heading toward one of the world's most... [more]

Europe: Changing of the Guard The most significant development in Europe in... [more]

By Fred Burton On Feb. 24, al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia attacked a key oil facility... [more]

An Omani court sentenced 31 radical Islamists on May 2 to up to 20 years in prison for plotting... [more]

A U.S. government decision to pull all nonessential diplomatic staff out of Saudi Arabia is based... [more]

Paris has gotten itself into a fine mess at home and abroad over a plan to ban religious symbols,... [more]

Dow Jones is teaming up with the Dubai International Financial Center to create a blue-chip index... [more]

The Bush administration has proposed a free trade agreement with the Middle East -- a deal that... [more]

Shell Oman Marketing Co. has denied rumors that its main overseas shareholder, Royal Dutch/Shell,... [more]

In the face of maturing domestic fields and voracious demand, Chinese oil companies are moving... [more]

A call to arms by Muslim clerics has yet to be answered by Arabs or other Muslims. Now that the... [more]

Oman government officials say they do not foresee any interruption in oil and liquefied natural... [more]

The government of Oman does not foresee an interruption in oil and liquefied natural gas... [more]

European-Arab Gulf relations are about to take a turn for the worse: An upcoming ministerial... [more]

Russian Energy Minister Igor Yusufov will visit Oman on Feb. 20 to discuss bilateral energy... [more]

Several Gulf Arab states have agreed to send a 20,000-member joint force to protect Kuwait in the... [more]

Foreign expatriates have begun to trickle out of Iraq and the surrounding region. A sudden surge... [more]

Desert Storm was about restoring the status quo ante. The 2003 war with Iraq will be about redefining the status quo in the region. Geopolitically, it will leave countries like Syria and Saudi Arabia completely surrounded by U.S. military forces and Iran partially surrounded. It is therefore no surprise that the regional powers, regardless of their hostility to Saddam Hussein, oppose the war: They do not want to live in a post-war world in which their own power is diluted. Nor is it a surprise, after last week’s events in Europe indicating that war is coming, that the regional powers — and particularly Saudi Arabia — are now redefining their private and public positions to the war. If the United States cannot be stopped from redefining the region, an accommodation will have to be reached. [more]