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The White House Tuesday announced US President Donald Trump will meet with Abu Dhabi crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Washington, a week before the US President departs for his first foreign trip since he took power. Read more
Leader of the Palestinian Authority Tuesday alluded to a potential visit of President Trump to the West Bank as he offered to meet with rival Benjamin Netanyahu to renew the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. Mahmoud Abbas indicated that President Trump who Read more
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday laid into the US, advising President Donald Trump to abandon plans to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city of Jerusalem. “The debates over the possibility of US moving its Read more
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday a tour in the Gulf and the Middle East as of this May 23 with Saudi Arabia as his first stop in a move to warm up ties with the Arab world. The tour, Read more
Presidents Putin and Trump had their first telephone conversation over Syria following US airstrikes on a Syrian military air base last month. Both sides think it is important for warring parties to halt hostilities. A statement from White House noted Read more
Italy’s Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s call for the US to undertake a significant role in war torn Libya has been turned down by President Donald Trump. In a joint press conference at the White House, Gentiloni stated that “we need Read more
The White House Wednesday announced that U.S. President will receive leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas early next month as part of President Trump’s attempt to revive suffocating peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians. The announcement comes one month Read more
A U.S. diplomat in Washington has revealed to London-based Qatari “The New Arab” that President Donald Trump has intervened in the release of US charity worker Aya Hijazi arrested nearly three years ago in Egypt for child abuse and human Read more
Somalia’s new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo is inviting al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Shabaab fighters to the table of negotiation to end years of deadly insurgency in the famine-stricken nation. According to voice of America (VOA), President Farmajo is willing to negotiate with Read more
The US military has intentionally targeted the Shayrat air base of the Syrian military with 59 tomahawk missiles launched from its USS Porter and USS Ross warships stationed in the Mediterranean Sea. President Donald Trump said he ordered the attack Read more