United States presidential visits to the Middle East
Table of visits

United States presidential visits to the Middle East

Section Title: Table of visits
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President	Dates	Countries	Locations	Key details

Franklin D. Roosevelt	November 22–26, 1943	Egypt	Cairo	Attended First Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek.

November 27 – December 2, 1943	Iran	Tehran	Attended Tehran Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

December 2–7, 1943	Egypt	Cairo	Attended Second Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü.

February 13–15, 1945	Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, Alexandria	Met with King Farouk, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Saudi Arabian King Ibn Saud, and British Prime Minister Churchill.

Dwight D. Eisenhower	December 6–7, 1959	Turkey	Ankara	Informal Visit. Met with President Celâl Bayar.

December 14, 1959	Iran	Tehran	Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Addressed Parliament.

Richard M. Nixon	May 30–31, 1972	Iran	Tehran	Official Visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

June 12–14, 1974	Egypt	Cairo, Alexandria	Met with President Anwar Sadat.

June 14–15, 1974	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	Met with King Faisal.

June 15–16, 1974	Syria	Damascus	Met with President Hafez al-Assad.

June 16–17, 1974	Israel	Tel Aviv, Jerusalem	Met with President Ephraim Katzir and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

June 17–18, 1974	Jordan	Amman	State Visit. Met with King Hussein.

Jimmy Carter	December 31, 1977 – January 1, 1978	Iran	Tehran	Official Visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and King Hussein of Jordan.

January 3–4, 1978	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd.

January 4, 1978	Egypt	Aswan	Met with President Sadat and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

March 7–9, 1979	Cairo, Alexandria, Giza	State visit; met with President Sadat and addressed the People's Assembly.

March 10–13, 1979	Israel	Tel Aviv, Jerusalem	State Visit. Met with President Yitzhak Navon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Addressed the Knesset.

March 13, 1979	Egypt	Cairo	Met with President Sadat.

George H. W. Bush	November 21–22, 1990	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah, Dhahran	Met with King Fahd and the Amir of Kuwait. Addressed U.S. and British military personnel in eastern Saudi Arabia.

November 22–23, 1990	Egypt	Cairo	Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with President Hosni Mubarak.

July 20–22, 1991	Turkey	Ankara, Istanbul	Met with President Turgut Ozal.

December 31, 1992	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with King Fahd.

Bill Clinton	October 25–26, 1994	Egypt	Cairo	Met with President Hosni Mubarak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.

October 26–27, 1994	Jordan	Aqaba, Wadi Arava, Amman	Attended the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace agreement. Addressed the Jordanian Parliament.

October 27, 1994	Syria	Damascus	Met with President Hafez al-Assad.

October 27–28, 1994	Israel	Jerusalem	Met with senior Israeli officials. Addressed the Knesset.

October 28, 1994	Kuwait	Kuwait City	Met with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Addressed U.S. military personnel.

October 28, 1994	Saudi Arabia	King Khalid Military City	Met with King Fahd.

November 5–6, 1995	Israel	Jerusalem	Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

March 13, 1996	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh	Attended the Summit of the Peacemakers.

March 13–14, 1996	Israel	Jerusalem, Tel Aviv	Discussed cooperation against terrorism with senior Israeli officials.

December 12–15, 1998	Jerusalem, Masada	Met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials.

December 14–15, 1998	Palestinian National Authority	Gaza, Bethlehem, Erez	Addressed Palestine National Council. Attended a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chairman Yasser Arafat.

February 8, 1999	Jordan	Amman	Attended the funeral of King Hussein.

November 15–19, 1999	Turkey	Ankara, İzmit, Ephesus, Istanbul	State Visit. Attended Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Summit meeting.

March 25, 2000	Oman	Muscat	Met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

August 29, 2000	Egypt	Cairo	Briefed President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East Peace Process.

October 16–17, 2000	Sharm el-Sheikh	Attended the Israeli-Palestinian Summit Meeting.

George W. Bush	June 2–3, 2003	Sharm el-Sheikh	Attended "Red Sea Summit" with the leaders of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.

June 4, 2003	Jordan	Aqaba	Attended meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Met with King Abdullah II.

June 4–5, 2003	Qatar	Doha	Met with Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Visited U.S. Central Command headquarters and addressed U.S. military personnel.

November 27, 2003	Iraq	Baghdad	Met with members of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council. Addressed U.S. military personnel.

June 26–29, 2004	Turkey	Ankara, Istanbul	Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Attended the NATO Summit meeting.

May 9–10, 2005	Georgia	Tbilisi	Met with President Mikheil Saakashvili.

June 13, 2006	Iraq	Baghdad	Met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Addressed U.S. military personnel.

November 29–30, 2006	Jordan	Amman	Met with King Abdullah II and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

September 3, 2007	Iraq	Al Asad Airbase	Met with Gen. David Petraeus, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, senior U.S.

January 9–11, 2008	Israel	Tel Aviv, Jerusalem	Met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres. Visited Yad Vashem.

January 10, 2008	Palestinian National Authority	Ramallah, Bethlehem	Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity.

January 11–12, 2008	Kuwait	Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan	Attended Roundtable on Democracy and Development. Met with Gen.

January 12–13, 2008	Bahrain	Manama	Met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Addressed U.S. military personnel.

January 13–14, 2008	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi, Dubai	Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

January 14–16, 2008	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh, Al-Janadriyah	Met with King Abdullah.

January 16, 2008	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh	Met with President Hosni Mubarak.

May 14–16, 2008	Israel	Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Masada	Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Addressed the Knesset.

May 16–17, 2008	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh, al-Janadriyah	Met with King Abdullah.

May 17–18, 2008	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh	Met with President Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.

December 14, 2008	Iraq	Baghdad	Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Signed Strategic Framework and Security Agreements. Visited U.S. military personnel.

Barack Obama	April 5–7, 2009	Turkey	Ankara, Istanbul	Met with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Delivered a speech to the Turkish Parliament.

April 7–8, 2009	Iraq	Baghdad	Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Visited with U.S. troops.

June 3–4, 2009	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with King Abdullah.

June 4, 2009	Egypt	Cairo	Met with President Hosni Mubarak. Toured the Giza Pyramids. Delivered a speech at Cairo University.

March 20–22, 2013	Israel	Tel Aviv, Jerusalem	Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Visited the Shrine of the Book and Yad Vashem, and spoke to students at the International Convention Center.

March 21–22, 2013	Palestinian National Authority	Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Bethlehem	Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity.

March 22–23, 2013	Jordan	Amman, Petra	Met with King Abdullah II.

March 28, 2014	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with King Abdullah.

January 27, 2015	Met with the newly appointed King Salman. Also paid respects to the late King Abdullah.

November 14–17, 2015	Turkey	Antalya	Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. also met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

April 20–21, 2016	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Official visit. Met with King Salman. Attended a summit meeting with the Gulf Cooperation Council.

September 30, 2016	Israel	Jerusalem	Attended the state funeral of former President Shimon Peres.

Donald J. Trump	May 20–22, 2017	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with King Salman. Participated in the 2017 Riyadh Summit

May 22–23, 2017	Israel	Jerusalem	Met with President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

May 23, 2017	Palestinian National Authority	Bethlehem	Met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

December 26, 2018	Iraq	Al Asad Air Base	Visited with U.S military personnel serving in Western Iraq.

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