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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House on November 18, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Saudis pushed Trump to continue Iran war

Garrett Owen
President Trump's demands for Iran's "unconditional surrender" and threatens further strikes. Iran says "no" as other countries hope for deescalation through diplomacy. (picture alliance / Getty Images)

Trump: Iran will be "hit very hard" soon

CK Smith
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters ahead of a briefing by Trump administration officials to members of the Senate on U.S. strikes on Iran, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on March 3, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voters sidelined over Middle East policy

Russell Payne
A plume of smoke rises after an explosion on March 2, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was confirmed killed after the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Iran strikes leave US travelers in lurch

Garrett Owen
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US and Qatari troops and staff await US President Donald Trump at the Al-Udeid air base southwest of Doha on May 15, 2025. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

US pulls troops as Iran strike looms

Garrett Owen
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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Hala reporting from Nablus in the West Bank (Photo courtesy of the author)

Hala Gorani on the toll of Gaza war

Dean Obeidallah
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
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