The foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East, a geopolitical region including parts of Africa and Asia, has among its primary considerations matters of petroleum politics, international
U.S. Marines on guard duty in April 2003 near a burning oil well in the Rumaila oil field of Basra, Iraq, following the 2003 U.S. invasion and during the Iraq War.
U.S. naval officer Stephen Decatur boarding a Tripolitan gunboat during the First Barbary War, 1804
King Ibn Saud converses with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on board the USS Quincy, in February 1945.
US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 2023
Diplomatic relations between Syria and the United States began in 1835, suspended in 2012 after the onset of the Syrian civil war, and reopened in September 2025. Priority issues between the two state
A decanter gifted to United States president Gerald Ford in 1974 from Abdul Halim Khaddam, the Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs of Syria at the time.
Syrian president Hafez al-Assad greets U.S. president Richard Nixon in Damascus, 1974
Syrian president Hafez al-Assad meets U.S. president Jimmy Carter in Geneva, 1977
Al-Sharaa with U.S. president Donald Trump and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025