US President Donald Trump on Wednesday had tea with a former jihadist who until this year had a $10 million US bounty on his head.

Videos of President Donald Trump at a meeting in Saudi Arabia appear to suggest that he fell asleep, though his eyes were only closed for a few seconds. Trump arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after a 15-hour flight for a four-day tour of the Middle East.

The Trump Organization has entered into real estate deals in all three countries Trump plans to visit this week.

President Donald Trump arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday to a royal-purple-carpet rollout and a motorcade ride ensconced by a calvary of Arabian horses – a daylong kickoff to the first major international trip of his second term.

The US president's foreign policy has been laid out unashamedly this week - it has been purely transactional - and in the Middle East it might just pay dividends. But might it work elsewhere, most of all to end Russia's war with Ukraine?

Donald Trump appeared to refuse to drink coffee offered to him by Saudi officials during a royal welcome ceremony. The US president, who arrived for his landmark Middle East trip on Tuesday (13 May),

President Donald Trump kicked off his Middle East tour with a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, vowing a continued partnership between Washington and Riyadh.