United States foreign policy in the Middle East

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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. US foreign policy then became much more expansive in the aftermath of World War II, with the goal of preventing the Soviet Union from gaining influence in the region during the Cold War. US foreign policy delivered extensive support in various forms to anti-communist and anti-Soviet regimes. Among the top priorities for the U.S. with regard to this goal was its support for the State of Israel against its Soviet-backed neighbouring Arab countries during the peak...

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