President Donald J. Trump’s trip to the Middle East on May 13-16 comes on the heels of more than three months of whirlwind activity in US foreign policy where the region has been a higher priority than it was in the early months of the previous US administration.

President Trump has always viewed the presidency as a worldwide hunt for deals. And there is no better place for that than the Gulf, where a few men wield absolute authority over vast wealth.

High-stakes nuclear talks between Iran and the U.S. signal tentative progress as pressure mounts ahead of President Trump's Middle East visit.

One of the strategic thrusts of the opening months of Trump’s second terms has been aimed at deepening America’s economic engagement with the leading economies of the Gulf. Thus, the first leg of his trip to the region resulted in a template for deeper US-Saudi ties.

The billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times has gotten closer – literally – to President Donald Trump after steadily shifting his newspaper to the right. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a biotech entrepreneur who acquired his city’s ailing broadsheet in 2018,