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Title race heats up at International Chess Championship
MUSCAT: The Muscat Nights International Chess Championship continued to deliver high levels of excitement and competitiveness with the conclusion of the third day of play (Round 4), in what is considered one of the strongest editions in the...
Strong start to Muscat Nights international chess tourney
Muscat, Jan 16 The Muscat Nights International Chess Championship got off to a strong and competitive start, featuring 270 players from 35 countries, as one of the region’s leading international tournaments listed on the Fide calendar. The...
Trump started a war Gulf states didn’t want. How he’s ending it has worried them more
Gulf states did not want Donald Trump to go to war with Iran. Now they are deeply anxious that he has stopped. Far from heralding a new “golden age” in the Middle East, as the US president has claimed, a premature and muddled ceasefire has left an...
Missing US airman rescued from Iran, Trump confirms
6.23am Iranian civilians searched for missing US airman Tehran had offered a financial award, of about $60,000, to any civilian that could turn in the missing US crewmember to authorities. Videos shared online over the weekend purported to show...
Iran continues strikes across the Persian Gulf despite Trump’s warning
People watch as smoke billows from an oil warehouse in the Kani Qirzhala area on the outskirts of Irbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, following a suspected drone strike, on Wednesday. AFP via Getty Images hide caption...
Trump urges UK to send warships to defend Strait of Hormuz
Pilot who died in Iraq plane crash is named A pilot who died in the US refuelling plane crash in Iraq on Thursday has been named by his family as Alex Klinner. Klinner, 33, a father of three from Birmingham, Alabama, had been deployed less than a...
Saif bin Zayed Attends Rabdan Academy 2025 Graduation Ceremony
“A New National Cohort Reflecting the UAE’s Pioneering Leadership in Resilience and Security” Saif bin Zayed: Investing in human capital is the cornerstone of the UAE’s resilience and leadership. Saif bin Zayed: Rabdan Academy graduates are a...
Trump to address nation after saying US may leave war within weeks
President Trump is set to address the nation on the Iran war at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday night, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying he would be providing "an important update," without providing further details. On...
Israel strikes Lebanon as Trump is set to deliver a speech on the Iran war
Updated April 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM EDT Click here to listen to NPR's State of the World podcast, a human perspective on global stories in just a few minutes, every weekday. President Trump is set to address the nation on the Iran war at 9 p.m....
Trump will address the nation after saying the U.S. may leave the Iran war within weeks
Updated April 1, 2026 at 10:02 AM CDT Click here to listen to NPR's State of the World podcast, a human perspective on global stories in just a few minutes, every weekday. President Trump is set to address the nation on the Iran war at 9 p.m....
Trump to address nation after saying U.S. may leave war within weeks
President Trump is set to address the nation on the Iran war at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday night, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying he would be providing "an important update," without providing further details. On...
Trump asks UK to send warships to defend Strait of Hormuz
Arrests in Kuwait over use of camera drones Police in Kuwait have arrested three people for using camera drones. The unidentified individuals were detained for violating official warnings about filming Iranian strikes, according to a briefing by...
Hegseth ousts the Army chief of staff as the Iran war rages through Week 5
Updated April 2, 2026 at 5:11 PM EDT U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down and retire, a U.S. official confirmed to NPR. The official was speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not...
Trump Says Ceasefire Only Possible When Hormuz Reopens
US President Donald Trump said he’ll only consider a halt to attacks on Iran when the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, sowing further confusion about how long he’s prepared to continue the war. Iran’s “New Regime President” has asked the US for a...
Oman make strong start to Arab Shooting Championship
MUSCAT, DEC 22 The Arab Shooting Championship for Bullet and Air Weapons 10m Rifle and Pistol got underway at the National Olympic Shooting Complex in Muscat, hosted by the Sultanate of Oman and organised by the Oman Shooting Association, with...
US ‘obliterated’ targets on Iran’s key oil island, says Trump
Meme warfare rages — with Britain on the sidelines The sharper-eyed Lego aficionados will note several clues that this may not be an official marketing film. There is, for instance, the inclusion of real characters among the animated Lego...
Trump ‘sends warships and marines’ to Middle East
Why is Kharg Island so important? Kharg, a five-mile‑long island about 19 miles from the Iranian coast, accounts for about 90 per cent of the country’s oil exports and remains operational even as Iran strikes refineries in Gulf countries. Saudi...
Scores dead including children after bus hits fuel tanker in Afghanistan
At least 76 people were killed when a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran collided with two other vehicles in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said on Wednesday. Mohammad Saeedi, spokesman for the Herat provincial...
Trump seeks de-escalation after Iran, Israel trade strikes
Getty Images (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump pressed for a de-escalation of attacks on Middle East energy sites after Iranian and Israeli strikes on major gas fields jolted global markets. Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City — the complex...
Iran, Israel Trade Strikes on Energy Facilities in Worsening War
Getty Images (Bloomberg) -- Iran and Israel traded strikes on key energy facilities in the Middle East, complicating US efforts to curb turmoil in markets as the conflict stretched toward three weeks. Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City — the...
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