#Middle East Policy

Articles (8)

• 🇺🇦 Trump Weighs Troop Deployments To Keep Middle East Options Open: Media Reports — 20/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Multiple US news outlets, citing sources, are reporting that President Donald Trump is considering sending thousands of additional US ground troops to bolster operations in the Middle ⁠East, a move th...

  Related: #Military Strategy
• 🇺🇸 State Department cuts jobs with deep expertise in Middle East as Iran crisis escalates — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray.

  Related: #Diplomatic Staffing
• 🇺🇸 Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Sending more Marines to Middle East isn't "a boots-on-the-ground deployment" — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a retired Navy SEAL, told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that Americans should take the sending of 5,000 more Marines to the Middle East "as boots on the ground deployment,...

  Related: #Military Deployment
• 🇺🇸 Sen. Chris Murphy says Trump administration "has no plan for the chaos" in Middle East — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that President Trump "wouldn't get that authorization" from Congress to launch the massive military operation...

  Related: #Congressional Oversight, #Military Authorization
• 🇺🇸 Trump says he wants 'freedom' for Iranians after strikes — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  President Trump on Saturday expressed that he wants “freedom” for the Iranian people after the U.S. and Israel carried out strikes against Tehran. “All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump told th...

  Related: #U.S.-Iran Relations, #Freedom and Security, #Military Actions
• 🇺🇸 Ex-Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Michael Herzog says he believes chances for Iran deal "not very high" — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday as the U.S. seeks to iron out a nuclear deal with Iran. Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael H...

  Related: #International Relations, #Nuclear Proliferation
• 🇺🇸 Trump set to meet with Netanyahu over Iran at the White House — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  President Trump is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday at the White House over Iran nuclear negotiations. CBS News Middle East reporter Courtney Kealy has more.

  Related: #International Relations, #Nuclear Diplomacy
• 🇺🇸 What the U.S. and Iran want from nuclear talks in Oman — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  The U.S. and Iran are wrapping up indirect talks in Oman Friday over Tehran's nuclear program. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.

  Related: #International Relations, #Nuclear Proliferation