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Qatar and US defense leaders agree to transition part of an Idaho air force base into a Qatari flight training facility. Not a wholly Qatari base on US soil, despite what some internet rumors say. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Getty Images)

Qatar isn't getting a US air force base

CK Smith
U.S. President Donald Trump reads a note during a roundtable discussion in the State Dining Room of the White House on October 8, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump getting second "yearly check-up"

Garrett Owen
A poster depicting leaders of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Oman and Lebanon alongside President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2025. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

There is no "two-state solution"

Andrew O'Hehir
President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives at the White House on April 07, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

How America is betraying itself

Nader Terani - TomDispatch.com
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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu at dinner in the Blue Room of the White House, July 7, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Israeli insiders on the Iran war

Chauncey DeVega
B-2 stealth bombers head to Guam which could signal intensified U.S. pressure to engage in the Middle East conflict between Israel and Iran. (Gary Ell / Getty Images)

B-2s to Guam to "intensify" pressure

CK Smith
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a state memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1948 Altalena affair, at Nachalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv on June 18, 2024. (SHAUL GOLAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Everybody hates Bibi — but he's winning

Andrew O'Hehir
President Donald J. Trump is greeted by young girls as he arrives for an official arrival ceremony at Qasr al Watan (Palace of the Nation) May 15, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

MAGA gets the Middle East treatment

Heather Digby Parton
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Donald Trump, President of the United States of America (USA), and Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdelasis al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, stand side by side in the group picture at the start of the G20 summit, June 2019. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Trump holds a USA yard sale

Brian Karem
Donald Trump and a view of the widespread destruction in Gaza, Jabalia. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's Gaza vision: Imperialism on acid

Andrew O'Hehir
President-Elect Donald Trump reacts during his meeting with Prince William, Prince of Wales at the Embassy of the United Kingdom's Residence on December 7, 2024 in Paris, France. (Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)

Trump bashes appointee in strange nom

Griffin Eckstein
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the Palmachim Airbase near the city of Rishon LeZion on July 5, 2023. (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel hits Iran in retaliatory strike

Griffin Eckstein
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This handout screen grab captured from a video shows Yemen's Houthi fighters' takeover of the Galaxy Leader Cargo in the Red Sea coast off Hudaydah, on November 20, 2023 in the Red Sea, Yemen. (Houthi Movement via Getty Images)

A new Middle East war? It's already here

Juan Cole - TomDispatch.com
The 1948 Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba, occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1947-1948 civil war in Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. (Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Why the Nakba still matters

Nicholas Liu
A barrage of rockets was launched by Lebanese group Hezbollah from southern Lebanon towards Galilee in northern Israel, on April 12, 2024 in Lebanon. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A world war in waiting

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Hala reporting from Nablus in the West Bank (Photo courtesy of the author)

Hala Gorani on the toll of Gaza war

Dean Obeidallah
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Ebrahim Raisi, Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can US prevent wider Middle East war?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Gerard Butler as Tom Harris and Navid Negahban as Mohammed "Mo" Doud in "Kandahar" (Open Road Films/Briarcliff Entertainment)

"We leave these places in ruins"

Gary M. Kramer
US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Jared Kushner takes Saudi cash

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
In this handout image provided by the Ministry of Defence, the British armed forces work with the U.S. military to evacuate eligible civilians and their families out of the country on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (MoD Crown Copyright via Getty Images)

Biden turns the page of history

Brian Karem
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China's 600 km/h high-speed maglev transportation system makes debut on July 20, 2021, in Qingdao, Shandong Province. (Zhang Jingang/VCG via Getty Images)

Why Americans can’t have nice things

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Soldiers from Afghan Security forces travel on a armed vehicle along a road in Panjshir province of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021. (AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

20 years of war, up in smoke

Jon Queally - Common Dreams
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghan president flees country, Taliban

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
Smoke and flames rise after Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes in Gaza City, Gaza on May 13, 2021. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How U.S. policy kills Palestinians

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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