Putin is mediating in the Iran situation to try to quickly de-escalate tensions, the Kremlin said on Friday, after he spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Venezuela's interim leader in Caracas to discuss cooperation, a U.S. official said on Friday, in the most senior known visit by a U.S. official since the United States toppled President Nicolas Maduro this month.

Fox News confirms through 'well-placed' US military sources that at least one aircraft carrier in motion toward Middle East.

Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator, dismissed reports claiming Donald Trump did not intend to attack Tehran, calling them “beyond inaccurate”.

Donald Trump was pulled back from striking Iran by last-minute diplomatic efforts from Persian Gulf states, it is understood.

Russia said that NATO's talk of Russia and China being a threat to Greenland was a myth designed to artificially whip up hysteria and that what it called the Western alliance's policy of escalating confrontation in the Arctic was extremely dangerous.

Trump urges Denmark to get Russia, China out of Greenland: 'Two dogsleds won't do it'.

The United States is withdrawing some personnel from bases in the Middle East, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, after a senior Iranian official said Tehran had warned neighbours it would hit American bases if Washington strikes.

Russia condemned what it described as "subversive external interference" in Iran's internal politics and said U.S. threats of new military strikes against the country were "categorically unacceptable."

President cancels all meetings with Iranian officials as death toll reaches at least 646 protesters.