US President Donald Trump has claimed that Israel and Iran had agreed to a "complete and total ceasefire" soon after Iran launched a limited missile attack Monday on a US military base in Qatar ...

Israel had long planned an attack on Iran but delayed it until several factors aligned: Donald Trump’s election in the US, the conclusion of a 60-day period of nuclear negotiations, and specific Iranian attacks.

The White House has claimed that Trump has personally intervened in negotiations between countries in conflict, helping broker ceasefires or peace agreements, although some foreign leaders dispute the extent of his involvement.

Trump’s average approval rating for the second quarter of his second term, April 20-July 19, is 40% in Gallup polling, compared to a 39% average in the second quarter of his first term but below second-term averages for every post-World War II president.

Weakened by war and diplomatic deadlock, Iran’s clerical elite stands at a crossroads: defy pressure to halt its nuclear activity and risk further Israeli and U.S. attack, or concede and risk a leadership fracture.

Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin won’t “mess around with me” ahead of a summit between the two world leaders in Alaska.