OBAMA'S VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA

How will US-Saudi relations continue in the post-Obama era?

That US policy toward the Middle East has dramatically fluctuated over the past decade is an understatement

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MIDDLE EAST

Obama in Riyadh for meeting with King Salman

The president is set to consult Washington’s Gulf allies on the crises in Yemen and Syria in particular

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As Obama visits Riyadh, a look at US-Saudi relations amid Yemen war

As the war in Yemen enters its second year uncertainty threatens the country’s future

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PHOTO GALLERIES

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Dubai’s Burj Khalifa lights up as a tribute to NZ attack victims
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With US departure, Syria’s Manbij braces for upheaval
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Christmas across the Middle East
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School in the ruins of Raqqa

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Dubai’s Burj Khalifa lights up as a tribute to NZ attack victims

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa lights up as a tribute to NZ attack victims

Burj Khalifa lit up with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacina Ardern's photo for her support to the Muslim community after last week's Christchurch mosque attacks that killed 50 worshipers. (Twitter)

With US departure, Syria’s Manbij braces for upheaval

With US departure, Syria’s Manbij braces for upheaval

A member of Manbij Military Council gestures at a car in Manbij city, Syria, December 29, 2018. Some 20 miles from the Turkish border, Manbij occupies a critical spot in the map of the Syrian conflict, near the junction of three separate blocks of territory that form spheres of Russian, Turkish and - for now - US influence. (Reuters)

People attend Christmas celebrations at Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (Reuters)

School in the ruins of Raqqa

In the Syrian city of Raqqa, children wear hats, scarves and coats to guard against the winter cold as they struggle to catch up on years of lost learning in a classroom with no doors or glazed windows. (Reuters)