DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from February 2021 to February 2024. The Iranian regime is on its back foot,

President Donald Trump is focused on realizing two transformative breakthroughs that his predecessors failed to accomplish: an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, centered on a tripartite US-Saudi-Israeli deal,

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the Middle East. This includes a collection of permanent U.S. bases and

US President Donald Trump has suggested that he plans to visit Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East soon.

The president did not give a specific timeline for when the trip would take place, or for how long. But he is expected to visit both Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The president is urging Gulf countries to increase their investment in the US after a series of bilateral economic and defense deals in recent months.

There is never a definitive date for Eid every year. Has Saudi Arabia confirmed it for 2025? How the date is determined, more on the Islamic holiday.

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are key allies, with the kingdom serving as a partner for political stability in the Gulf and Middle East. The U.S. is currently engaged in a military campaign against the Houthis, an Iranian-backed group in Yemen, which Saudi Arabia has been fighting since 2015.