US President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “be careful” and pressed him to halt a major retaliatory operation against Iran after the latter launched a first strike at the former since April's fragile ceasefire. The call helped avert what Israeli and US officials said could have been the largest wave of Israeli strikes since the April ceasefire.

US President Donald Trump said he would call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ask him not to respond to the missiles Iran fired at Israel on Sunday, in an effort to…

Trump described the strikes as 'unhelpful' and is calling for calm between the two nations, even saying he's going to call Benjamin Netanyahu and tell him not to strike back.