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Trump says he agrees to suspend bombing and attack of Iran for 2 weeks WASHINGTON | Xinhua |  U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has agreed to “suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.” Trump wrote on social media that his decision is …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua |  U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran could be “taken out” in one night and that night “might” be Tuesday evening, the deadline Trump set for Iran to make a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while claiming that negotiations with the Iranian side …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua |  U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. military had used as many as 155 warplanes to rescue the second airman in Iran and was forced to destroy some cargo planes that got stuck. The pilot was injured “quite badly,” Trump said at a press …

JERUSALEM | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump told Israeli media Channel 12 on Sunday that the United States is engaged in “deep” negotiations with Iran to secure a ceasefire, while stressing that Washington will not “leave in the middle” of the conflict. Trump said his administration is maintaining contacts …

OPINION | XINHUA | For decades, NATO has largely relied on the U.S. for security and defense. Trump, unlike his predecessors, insists the U.S. is being ripped off and should be paid back. With the Strait of Hormuz now effectively closed thanks to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, the Trump …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua |  While saying the United States is “nearing completion” of its core objectives in Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday night threatened to hit Iran “extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” a timeline he has recently set for ending the monthlong war. “I …

The multilateral system that Donald Trump has dismantled was not, as he believes, a trap laid by weaker states to fleece a credulous superpower   COMMENT | STEPHEN HOLMES | After declaring Iran’s military “gone”, US President Donald Trump appealed to Britain, France, Japan, and South Korea – as well as …

Moving east, India and Pakistan are already nuclear powers, and after recent border skirmishes, neither will be dialing back NEWS ANALYSIS | BY AGENCIES | Of all the reasons proffered for the Iran war—and there’ve been a few—probably the easiest for Americans to get behind is that striking the regime was necessary to permanently derail …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua |  U.S. President Donald Trump will “unleash hell” if Iran refuses to make a deal over the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday. “President Trump does not bluff and he is prepared to unleash hell,” she said at a …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | The United States has sent Iran a 15-point peace plan, via Pakistan, in an attempt to end the war with Iran, now in its fourth week, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two unidentified officials. The Trump administration is eager to “find an off-ramp …