U.S. President Donald Trump

June 10, 2026 5:24 PM

Trump says Iran will ‘have to pay the price’ after tit-for-tat strikes

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Iran had taken too long to negotiate a deal and would now "have to pay the price," while Tehran said it would reassess diplomatic engagement with Washington after tit-for-tat strikes overnight. Iran launched missile and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for American strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz. The exchange of fire, which came after Trump said Iran had downed a U.S. Apache helicopter...

June 10, 2026 3:06 PM

Netanyahu to run for re-election, his party says, after Trump raises doubts

Benjamin Netanyahu will seek re-election this year, his party announced on Wednesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he wasn't sure if the Israeli prime minister would stand again. In a brief statement, Netanyahu's Likud Party said he would run in the election and, God willing, he would win. The election has not yet been formally announced but must be held by October. Earlier, ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl posted on X that Trump had told him he did not know if N...

June 9, 2026 9:29 PM

US Energy Secretary says ship traffic through Strait of Hormuz rising ‘very meaningfully’

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Tuesday that ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is rising "very meaningfully" as the conflict with Iran continues. "I would say rising very meaningfully," Wright said when asked how ship traffic is flowing through the Strait compared to a week or two ago. Wright made the remarks during an Atlantic Council conference and added that it would take many months to get back to normal flows of energy once the war is over. Vessel movements on the stra...

June 9, 2026 12:16 PM

Trump says pilots safe after US Army Apache goes down near Hormuz

U.S. President Donald Trump said early on Tuesday that the pilots of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter that went down near the Strait of Hormuz "are fine." Speaking on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport before returning to Washington, D.C., Trump said there was "nobody injured." The administration would issue a report later on Tuesday, he added. The New York Times reported late on Monday that a U.S. Army Apache helicopter gunship went down near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and ...

June 9, 2026 9:40 AM

Iran and Israel say they have halted strikes on each other for now

Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump, though Tehran warned it would resume hostilities if Israel continued to hit Hezbollah in Lebanon. The most direct confrontation between the two countries since April threatened to wreck Washington's efforts to reach an agreement with Tehran to end their more than three-month-old war. Oil prices rose as much as 5% after the flurry of attacks, then fell when Iran's military said...

June 8, 2026 1:35 PM

Israel hits Iran petrochemical plant in new strikes after Trump reprimand

Israel said on Monday it hit a petrochemical plant in Iran's southwest, along with strikes elsewhere on military targets, after U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from further attacks. In the first hit on an energy site inside Iran since the April 8 ceasefire, Israel said it struck targets at the Mahshahr petrochemical complex, while a provincial official told Iran's semi-official Fars news agency parts of the plant were damaged. Ye...

June 5, 2026 2:50 PM

‘Albania is not for sale’, protesters say over Kushner-linked luxury resort near a protected wetland

Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana late on Thursday in the largest protest this week against a planned luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law. The €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) project is being led by Jared Kushner's investment firm Affinity Partners on an island off Albania and an undeveloped stretch of coastline near the Vjosa-Narta protected area, a wetland home to flamingos, s...

June 3, 2026 5:10 PM

Trump says Iran has agreed to not have a nuclear weapon

U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran has agreed not to have a nuclear weapon and that he would probably meet with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khameneiat some point if things "work out". "They've already agreed they're not going to have a nuclear weapon," Trump told "Pod Force One" in an interview broadcast on Wednesday, while speaking about Iran. Asked about Khamenei's involvement in talks with the U.S. on ending hostilities, Trump said, "He's involved, absolutely. ... I think they have a lot of r...

June 3, 2026 10:05 AM

Israel strikes south Lebanon after stepping back from Beirut attack

Israel kept up strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday, pressing its campaign against Hezbollah a day after U.S. President Donald Trump asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Beirut to avert further escalation in the three-month-old war. Following Trump's intervention, Lebanon's government said Israel would refrain from carrying out threatened strikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, while the group would halt attacks against Israel. But the announcement ha...

June 2, 2026 5:15 PM

Iran studying deal to halt war as stalemate persists

Iran is reviewing a proposed agreement with the United States to halt the war between the two countries, Iran's Mehr news reported on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said talks to reach a deal were continuing. More than three months after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran, the conflict has hardened into a stalemate while largely indirect talks to negotiate an interim deal have proved inconclusive, leaving the Strait of Hormuz largely shut. Iran has not yet responded ...