President Donald Trump has long advocated for keeping the US out of Middle Eastern wars. By joining Israel’s offensive against Iran, he is making a dramatic geopolitical u-turn.

Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson reports on U.S. military aircraft leaving the country, possibly in preparation for a strike on Iran, as President Donald Trump returns to the White House for a national security briefing.

(Reuters) -Wall Street stock index futures edged lower on Friday as investors assessed comments on U.S. military involvement in the Middle East conflict, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's warning on rising inflation ahead.

By bombing three nuclear sites in Iran, the United States has joined Israel’s war against the country. Now it is bracing for Iranian retaliation.

Airlines continued to avoid large parts of the Middle East on Sunday after U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24, with traffic already skirting airspace in the region due to recent missile exchanges.

The consequences of the increasingly urgent hostilities between Israel and Iran are multifold—humanitarian, geopolitical, and so on. If the situation deepens, it could also have important implications for energy markets and, by extension, climate change and the energy transition.