President Donald Trump says the U.S. knows where Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding during the Israel-Iran conflict but doesn’t want him killed “for now.”

The United States is closer to a potential major military confrontation than we have ever have been in the Trump era. But discerning where President Donald Trump’s head is at is proving a very difficult exercise.

Some longtime defenders of the president’s America First mantra are calling him out for weighing a greater U.S. role in the region.

Conservative and progressive lawmakers want to force a vote on a resolution requiring the administration to seek congressional approval before going to war in the Middle East.

On June 15, Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Ali Khamenei, a senior U.S. official told USA TODAY. The U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks, confirmed that Israel was presented with an opportunity to kill Khamenei but Trump objected to the plan and steered it off.

Vance defends Trump after supporters like Tucker Carlson and those in the MAGA base's calls to stay out of the Israel-Iran conflict.

President Donald Trump has talked and maneuvered himself into a policy stance on the Israel-Iran conflict with no clear strategic objectives and a slew of contradictory words and actions. After some hesitation,

President Donald Trump asserted Tuesday that there is now “complete and total control of the skies over Iran,” though he did not clarify whether he was referring to American or Israeli military operations.