President Donald Trump offered another glimpse of an emerging, sometimes contradictory foreign policy doctrine: trying to end various conflicts around the globe while vowing not to withdraw from the world entirely.

MUSTAFA KUTLAY is a Senior Lecturer at City St George’s, University of London, a Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center, and a co-author, with Mina Toksoz and William Hale, of Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return.

President Donald Trump has visited the main U.S. military base in the Middle East as he uses his four-day visit to Gulf states to reject the “interventionism” of America’s past in the region.

For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups suspected of being affiliated with the PKK, such as the Sinjar Resistance Units in northern Iraq, have been indirectly supported by Iran.

Turkey's finance minister said the country's economic transformation was on track and that the country was prepared to deal with slower growth.

It began in Riyadh with Trump saying he wanted to make a deal with Iran, before meeting the new leader of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa. A short flight on Air Force One then whisked him over to Doha where he signed financial and arms deals worth billions of dollars with the Emir of Qatar.

President Donald Trump is visiting the United Arab Emirates on Thursday as part of his international tour in the Middle East. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

The drastic response to the Port Sudan attacks has been underpinned by a belief that they were masterminded in Abu Dhabi. Sudanese and western diplomatic sources told MEE that, enraged by the Nyala airport strike - and by Turkey’s perceived involvement in it - the UAE had authorised and directed the assault on Port Sudan.