WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wanted the brief and explosive American intervention in the Middle East to end with the satisfying tidiness of a prime-time season finale. After days of ...

However, Trump seized an opportunity to strike with war already underway, brushing aside fears that he could become mired in exactly the kind of open-ended conflict in the Middle East that he had ...

Trump even gave the conflict a definitive name — “THE 12 DAY WAR” — leaving no doubt that he viewed the storyline as complete. Now the question is whether the rest of the world will follow the script ...

Now the question is whether the rest of the world will follow the script that Trump has laid out. An unsteady ceasefire adds uncertainty The ceasefire has already proven shaky, with Israel and Iran ...