United States presidential visits to the Middle East
Table of visits
Table:
President

Dates

Countries

Locations

Key details

Franklin D. Roosevelt[1]

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[2]

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[3]

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[4]

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[5]

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[6]

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[7]

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. officials, Iraqi political leaders. Addressed U.S military personnel.

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. David Petraeus and United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. Addressed U.S. military personnel.

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. Attended Israel's 60th anniversary. Visited the Masada fortification site.

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. Addressed the World Economic Forum.

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[8]

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. Laid a wreath at Anitkabir Mausoleum,[9] Also met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople of the Orthodox Church,[10] attended the Alliance of Civilizations forum,[11] and participated in a town hall meeting with students at the Tophane Cultural Center.[12][13]

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.[14]

January 27, 2015

Met with the newly appointed King Salman. Also paid respects to the late King Abdullah.[15][16]

November 14–17, 2015

Turkey

Antalya

Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting.[17] also met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and Russian President Vladimir Putin.[18][19][20][21]

April 20–21, 2016

Saudi Arabia

Riyadh

Official visit. Met with King Salman. Attended a summit meeting with the Gulf Cooperation Council.[22]

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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