When President Trump declared from the stage of an opulent ballroom in Saudi Arabia that the United States was done nation-building and intervening, that the world’s superpower would no longer be “giving you lectures on how to live,” his audience erupted in applause. He was effectively denouncing decades of American policy in the Middle East,…
President Trump held an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday with the president of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara, a day after announcing that the United States would lift sanctions on his country — a move that would ease the economic stranglehold on a nation that is seen as central to the stability of the Middle East. It was…
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, working to repair his strained relationship with the United States and secure a favorable deal to end the war with Russia, was scheduled to meet on Monday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia. The meeting between Mr. Zelensky and Prince Mohammed, the de facto Saudi leader, who…
President Trump, using the power of the presidency to intervene in global sports diplomacy, on Thursday deepened his efforts to broker an elusive agreement involving the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league that could ultimately benefit his family’s golf courses. For the second time this month, Mr. Trump hosted key negotiators at the…
President Trump touted the 2020 Abraham Accords that established formal ties between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of his first term. Now he is pursuing his long-desired goal of getting Saudi Arabia to join the accords — but he may have just dealt himself a serious setback….
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia told President Trump on Wednesday that the kingdom intends to increase its investment and trade with the United States by at least $600 billion over the next four years, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. The crown prince, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, told…
Saudi Arabia, long on the lookout for a global platform to showcase its sporting ambitions, is nearing the end of its search. The Persian Gulf kingdom is close to acquiring up to a 10 percent stake in DAZN, a sports-only network that has been privately funded by the billionaire businessman Len Blavatnik, according to three…
When Donald J. Trump was last president of the United States, the wealthy monarchies of the Persian Gulf had a mostly harmonious relationship with his administration. As Mr. Trump prepares to return to the White House, the leaders of those Gulf countries have generally welcomed him back. But this time around, the Gulf states and…