US troops are to be deployed to the Middle East as mixed messages about peace talks continue

Iran has denied the president’s claim of ‘very strong’ negotiations and says he is trying to ‘manipulate the financial and oil markets’

The Islamic Republic says it will not back down as pressure builds for the conflict to end as global oil markets are upended

The proposal was sent even as Washington began to move paratroopers to the Middle East to back up a contingent of Marines already heading to the region.

With petrol prices surging at home, the US president wants to extract his country from the war he started, and he may leave Israel in the lurch, writes world affairs editor Sam…

Trump says he is talking to "the right people" in Iran, but Tehran says no such negotiations are being held.

US troops are to be deployed to the Middle East as mixed messages about peace talks continue

Donald Trump maintains that both sides want to make a deal, even as Iran says otherwise. Analysts say the current plan is ‘bound to be rejected’ with the war as it stands, writes…