Export data from March shows sharp decline in exports to countries and key markets targeted by Iranian missiles.

Chinese, Egyptian leaders discuss the US-Israel war on Iran, which has prompted regional powers to rethink defence.

American troops in the Middle East are having their deployments extended through March 2027, indicating a continued, open-ended U.S. military presence. ABC News' Luis Martinez and Karen Travers have the latest.

Oil prices rose on Thursday after U.S. strikes on Iran and renewed ‌Israeli threats against Tehran revived concerns about disruptions to Middle East supplies.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Egypt to strengthen economic and diplomatic ties with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi as China seeks to expand its influence in the Middle East.

Upcoming forums hosted by the Crown Center for Middle East Studies will examine various impacts of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 on the Middle East, 25 years later. The attacks on the United States set in motion policies and wars on Afghanistan and Iraq that profoundly reshaped the Middle East,

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has arrived in eastern Thailand after its grueling deployment in the Middle East.

The Air Force told Wyden it ‌disabled the advertising identifiers on computers and ‌mobile phones two months ago. U.S. Special Operations Command said in a separate letter that it had "recently" disabled them on its Windows devices. The ⁠Army told Reuters ⁠that advertising IDs tied to mobile devices had been disabled since earlier this year.