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At the Hague on Tuesday, president Donald Trump used the same schoolyard fight allegory to talk about Israel and Iran as he used when talking recently about Russia and Ukraine.

"They're not going to be fighting each other — they've had it. They've had a big fight," Trump said of the bombs exchanged by the two Mideast nations.

"Like two kids in a schoolyard, you know? They fight like hell, you can't stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes, then it's easier to stop them."...

Donald Trump's interpretation of Vladimir Putin's non-committal statement on a ceasefire with Ukraine was like "putting lipstick on a pig," according to CNN's Brianna Keilar.

Putin said a a news conference, “We agree with the proposals to stop the hostilities." And, while Russia would support a pause in the fighting, "There are issues that need to be discussed,” Putin said, adding that he may need to “have a phone call with Trump.”

Trump was asked about the statement during an Oval Office meeting Thursday with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Trump called it "very promising" but "incomplete." He said he 'would love to meet and talk to Putin, but we have to get it over with fast,'" co-host Boris Sanchez recounted....

NATO decided Friday to end its seven-month mission in Libya on October 31, despite calls from the country's new rulers for air patrols to continue until the end of the year.

The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials said Monday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States stepped aside to allow NATO to run Libya no-fly operations, but the US military's enormous strike power remains the real muscle behind the coalition effort.