Donald Trump’s surprise move to lift sanctions on Syria during his trip to the Middle East marked the latest example of the President seeking to combine peacemaking with lucrative business opportunities.

President Trump bucked critics in his administration and security hawks in Israel in his decision to lift sanctions on Syria and embrace its new leader, a U.S.-designated terrorist who formerly

There’s more to Donald Trump’s Middle East trip than billion-dollar contracts, parades of camels and a storm back home over Qatar’s offer to give the president a new Air Force One.

Republican lawmakers are raising concerns about the gift, and voicing reservations about lucrative Trump family business dealings in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Big deals to sell chips to the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia have divided the U.S. government over whether they could be remembered for shipping cutting-edge A.I. overseas.

The United Arab Emirates and the United States have signed an agreement for the Gulf country to build the largest artificial intelligence campus outside the United States, a type of deal that previously faced restrictions over Washington’s concerns that China could access the technology.

President Donald Trump arrived in the United Arab Emirates Thursday for the last leg of his first major foreign trip. Air Force One was given a fighter jet escort into the country’s airspace, just as Saudi Arabia and Qatar offered on the first stops of his Mideast trip.

President Trump has always viewed the presidency as a worldwide hunt for deals. And there is no better place for that than the Gulf.