Oval Office

November 18, 2025 | |

Saudi Crown Prince Touts $1 Trillion Investment in U.S. During Meeting With Trump

Latest Developments MBS Investment and Diplomatic Ties: President Donald Trump warmly greeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on November 18, signaling a closer relationship...

November 13, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

Normalizing Ties Between Saudi Arabia and Israel Should Be Trump’s North Star When MBS Visits White House

November is shaping up to be an historic month at the White House. After welcoming Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to the Oval Office on November 10, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) will...

September 10, 2025 | |

Trump Meets With Hostage Families and Survivors Following Israeli Strike on Hamas Leaders in Qatar

Trump Meets With Former Hostages, Families: U.S. President Donald Trump met on September 10 with a delegation of former Israeli hostages and family members of those still held in...

August 20, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

Northern exposure

The Alaska summit revealed Putin’s neo-Soviet goals

August 18, 2025 | |

Zelenskyy and European Leaders Meet With Trump at White House in Bid to End Russian War on Ukraine

“Very Substantial Progress”: Joined by several European leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss a possible...

August 16, 2025 | |

Trump to Meet with Zelenskyy Following Inconclusive Alaska Summit with Putin

Zelenskyy to Visit Washington: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Donald Trump on Monday after Trump’s summit in Alaska with his Russian counterpart...

July 14, 2025 | Peter Doran |

Trump throws gauntlet down on Putin — who gambled he could stall his way to victory

The time for talk is over. President Donald Trump issued a major deadline to Russia on Monday. If Moscow does not “make a deal” with Kyiv within 50 days, countries that do business with Russia...

June 11, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

Stalin in the subway

What a statue tells us – and should tell President Trump – about Vladimir Putin

June 9, 2025 | John Hardie |

Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June

Welcome back to the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas they watch.

May 22, 2025 | Bradley Bowman, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense is costly, ambitious — and necessary

President Donald Trump this week took important steps to advance his “Golden Dome” missile-defense system — and not a moment too soon. For years, administrations of both parties...

March 6, 2025 | |

‘Hello and Goodbye — You Can Choose’: Trump Delivers New Ultimatum to Hamas to Release Israeli Hostages

No Hamas Member Safe: President Donald Trump issued a “final warning” to the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group and allied organizations holding Israeli hostages in Gaza. “‘Shalom...

March 5, 2025 | John Hardie |

What the suspension of US aid means for Ukrainian forces

On Monday, the Trump administration announced it was “pausing and reviewing” military aid for Ukraine following the contentious Oval Office meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr...

March 4, 2025 | John Hardie, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

By halting Ukraine aid, Trump courts personal defeat

There’s still time to avoid emboldening America’s enemies—and a humiliation that dwarfs his predecessor’s Afghanistan withdrawal.

March 3, 2025 | Colin Ahern, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

U.S. digital disarmament gives Russia free rein in cyberspace. Bad idea.

In cyberspace, as in other domains, peace comes through strength.

February 28, 2025 | Peter Doran |

Small thanks and a little grace can repair that disastrous Ukraine meeting

High-stakes diplomatic negotiations almost never play out in view of the public. During Friday’s charged White House meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump,...

February 9, 2025 | Eyal Hulata |

The major opportunity Trump is giving Israel? Not what you think

It is no coincidence that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz clarified that the US does not intend to use military force in Gaza and does not support the forced removal of the Gazan population.

February 3, 2025 | Jacob Nagel |

Netanyahu must push Trump to take real action on Iran

Any resolution must address all three components of Iran’s nuclear program: fissile materials, weaponization, and delivery systems.

December 6, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Winners and losers in the Middle East: The story so far

For Turkey and Qatar, net gains. For Iran, and its Palestinian and Lebanese proxies, net losses. For Israel, the jury is out.

October 30, 2024 | Boaz Golany, Jacob Nagel

North Korean Troops in Ukraine: Are We on the Path to World War III?

A new version of the defunct Warsaw Pact is emerging in front of our eyes. With Russia and China as its two major driving forces, joined by regional powers such as North Korea and Iran, that brings with it its proxy terror organizations.

September 4, 2024 | Clifford D. May

McMaster and commander

Thirteen months as President Trump’s national security advisor