President Donald Trump on Thursday visits a U.S. base installation at the center of American involvement in the Middle East as he uses his four-day visit to Gulf states to reject the "interventionism" of America's past in the region.
In other parts of the Middle East violence flared in the West Bank and Gaza, with a pregnant Israeli woman killed even as the international rights group ,Human Rights Watch ,said that Israel's plan to seize Gaza, remain in the territory and displace hundreds of thousands of people "inches closer to extermination."
Trump plans to address troops at Qatar's al-Udeid Air Base , which was a major staging ground during the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and supported the recent U.S. air campaign against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis. The president has held up Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia and Qatar as models for economic development in a region plagued by conflict as he works to entice Iran to come to terms with his administration on a deal to curb its nuclear program.
The President also meets business leaders in Qatar and heads to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
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