US President Donald Trump has described the assistance Ukraine is providing to countries in the Middle East as political PR by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Macron calls for Middle East de-escalation while Trump and Israel push military pressure against Iran, exposing growing diplomatic rifts over regional strategy.

President Trump contemplates reducing military operations in the Middle East as the U.S. increases troop deployment amidst ongoing regional conflict and rising oil prices.

Iran threatened to target recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisted it was still building missiles. Friday’s show of defiance came nearly three weeks into U.S.-Israeli strikes that have killed a slew of Tehran’s top leaders and hammered its weapons and energy industries.

President Donald Trump threatened to “blow up” the world’s largest gas field, as Israeli strikes spark Iranian retaliation and fears of further economic shocks. Follow for live updates.

Trump honors six US troops killed in Middle East plane crash at closed-press dignified transfer - Trump was hit with backlash after attending another dignified transfer for soldiers killed in the war

The widening war in Iran is exposing big gaps at the State Department, especially in the bureau that handles the Middle East.

Attacks on South Pars and Ras Laffan, and Donald Trump’s threat to “massively blow up” the world’s largest gasfield, all hit markets