United States foreign policy in the Middle East

The foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East, a geopolitical region including parts of Africa and Asia, has among its primary considerations matters of petroleum politics, international trade, the War on terror, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The first major instances of US foreign policy in the region came with the American–Algerian War which lasted from 1785 through 1795, followed by the First Barbary War (1801–1805), shortly after the 1776 establishment of the United States as an independent sovereign state.

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