President Donald Trump suggested the US is nearing an agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear activities, telling business leaders during the final leg of his Gulf trip, “I think wer

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States was getting very close to securing a nuclear deal with Iran, and Tehran had "sort of" agreed to the terms.

After initially teasing that he may jet off to Istanbul for the Ukraine-Russia peace talks, Trump threw water on the matter to reporters on Air Force One, saying that “nothing is going to happen until (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and I get together.”

Plus, Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown University scholar who was targeted for deportation by the Trump administration is released from federal custody.

For a third straight day, the United States on Wednesday issued sanctions targeting Iran as the Trump administration attempts to negotiate a new nuclear arms deal with the Middle Eastern country.

Iran will hold talks in Istanbul on Friday with European parties to their now-moribund 2015 nuclear deal, two European and an Iranian diplomatic source said on Tuesday,

President Trump cherishes big, out-of-the-box deals. As he tours the region, Trump should think beyond Iran’s nuclear issue and work to achieve the denuclearization of the entire Middle East.