Live Updates: Biden at GCC summit in Saudi Arabia 'the US is not going anywhere'
Follow along for the latest updates on the US president's trip to Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia.
![US President Joe Biden takes notes while an usher serves coffee during the Jeddah Security and Development Summit (GCC+3) at a hotel in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on July 16, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/2022-07/GettyImages-1241933555.jpg?h=1d34674f&itok=e4f0MRT_)
US President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday on his first visit to the Middle East since taking office last year.
He then had stops in the West Bank and Saudi Arabia, where Biden is meeting with Arab leaders at a summit of the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.
The visit comes amid global energy and food crises and high oil prices as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, unfinished negotiations over a return to the Iran nuclear agreement, a fragile truce in the war in Yemen and strains in US-Saudi relations since the murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi.