The president urged Israel and Iran to make a deal and stop the current conflict escalating across the region and proclaimed he wanted to 'make the Middle East great again'

President Trump rejected an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior U.S. official told USA TODAY.

Iran has asked Cyprus to convey "some messages" to Israel, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, adding he expected to speak to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later in the day. He did not say who specifically the messages were from or what they said,