These were the updates from the final day of Donald Trump’s Middle East tour, on May 15, 2025:
These were the updates from the final day of Donald Trump’s Middle East tour, on May 15, 2025:
- US President Donald Trump attends state dinner with the president of the United Arab Emirates, touting strong relations and a $1.4 trillion investment in AI from the UAE in his final stop on a Middle East tour.
- The White House said that Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed agreements that would “generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion”.
- The agreements are said to include a $96bn deal with Qatar Airways to buy up to 210 Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X aeroplanes, and a statement of intent for $38bn in investments at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base and other air defence capabilities.
- A meeting is scheduled for later today of US, Turkish and Syrian officials to discuss details of Trump’s announced dropping of sanctions against Syria.
- Trump’s three-country tour of the Gulf state region will conclude in the UAE on Thursday.