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WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) — President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the end of the war on Iran could be near, signaling potential for both direct talks with Tehran’s leadership ‌and a winding down of the conflict even without a deal.

TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Iran attacked and set ​ablaze a fully loaded crude oil tanker off Dubai on Monday, as President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would obliterate Iran’s energy plants and oil wells if it does not open the Strait of ‌Hormuz.

DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Iran fired multiple waves of missiles at Israel on ​Monday and vowed to “punish the aggressor” as Israeli forces pounded Tehran and oil prices rose after Yemen’s Houthis entered the war in the Middle East.

CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) — The risk of an expanded Iran war ​grew as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday launched their first attacks on Israel since the start of the conflict, as additional U.S. forces reached the Middle East.

DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump said Iran was desperate to make a deal to end nearly four weeks of fighting, ​contradicting the Iranian foreign minister who said his country was reviewing a U.S. proposal but had no intention of holding talks to wind down the conflict.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Pentagon is expected to send ​thousands of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, two people familiar with the ‌matter told Reuters on Tuesday, adding to a massive U.S. military buildup even as President Donald Trump talks abo…

NEW YORK/ATLANTA (Reuters) —Two pilots died in a runway accident that shut New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Monday and President Donald Trump deployed armed immigration ​agents to help ease long security lines at major airports strained by personnel shortages.

TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Iran will attack Israel’s power plants and plants supplying U.S. bases in the Gulf if President Donald Trump carries out his threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power network, the country’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement ​o…

TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen the Strait of ​Hormuz within 48 hours, a significant escalation barely a day after he talked about “winding down”…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration on Friday issued a 30-day ​sanctions waiver for the purchase of ‌Iranian oil at sea to ease energy supply pressures since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on ​Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.