There’s more to Donald Trump’s Middle East trip than billion-dollar contracts, parades of camels and a storm back home over Qatar’s offer to give the president a new Air Force One.

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.

REUTERS Along with investments, the president may also bring up other foreign policy topics like ... prosperous and successful Middle East, where the United States and Middle Eastern nations ...

A Newsweek map shows where Americans have been warned against traveling in the Middle East and Asia as tensions with Iran continue to escalate amid the repeated delay of nuclear negotiations with the United States.

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.

Click here to subscribe.When President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the encounter went beyond the “hello” the White House had told reporters to expect.