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A coalition of six organizations held a news conference to call on the U.S. to remove all military aircraft from Syrian airspace. Speakers argued that the U.S. military role in Syria is illegal and…

Panelists debated the situation in the Middle East and examined policies from the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. Participants included authors David Horowitz and Bassem Youssef,…

Middle East analysts spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how the territory of Gaza factors into the peace process. Among the speakers was a United Nations representative of an…

Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat ISIS, briefed reporters at the State Department on coalition efforts over the past six months in Iraq and Syria. He…

Qatar experts testified at a hearing on that country’s relations with the U.S. following the recent blockade imposed by six Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, over alleged reports…

President Trump and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri held a joint news conference after meeting at the White House. They talked about cooperation in the ongoing fight against ISIS and…

Anan Ameri, founder and former director of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, talked about her book, The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus,…

The U.N. Security Council met to debate the latest turn in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a series of fatal skirmishes between Israeli police and Palestinians in East Jerusalem in which Israeli…

President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron held a joint news conference in Paris following their bilateral meeting. They discussed counterterrorism, climate change, trade, and Syria. President Trump later…

This 1979 United Nations film provides an Arab perspective on Palestine. The documentary traces events from 1947 to 1978 with archival film, visits to refugee camps, and interviews with…

Historian Stacy Farenthold talked about about why Syrians immigrated to the U.S. during the first World War and what they did once they arrived. This interview took place at the…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on previous-day special elections for empty House seats in Georgia and South Carolina. Republicans won both elections. Josef Federman talked…

Guy Laron provided a history of the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, which took place from June 5-10, 1967.

The Hudson Institute held a discussion on the changing alliances between Israel and Arab states in the Middle East, examining the impact of ISIS and the Iran nuclear deal on the region. Panelists…

Michael Oren talked about his book, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. The book chronicles the events of the six-day-long Arab-Israeli War, which resulted…

Bassem Youssef talked about his book, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring, about his satirical coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and consequences of criticizing…

Alia Malek, author of The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria; Christopher Phillips, author of The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East; and Elliot…

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer briefed reporters and responded to questions at the daily press briefing, his first since President Trump’s return from a trip through the Middle East and…

President Trump and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered brief statements to the press after meeting in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, part of President Trump’s nine-day trip…

President Trump participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Veshem, the Israeli national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. He was introduced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…