This is the second time President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken on the phone this month.

President Trump’s early departure comes after a White House official said he had decided not to sign onto a G7 statement urging restraint from both Israel and Iran.

French President Emmanuel Macron, during a visit to Greenland to offer his support to the Arctic island, said on Sunday that Russia lacked the credibility to mediate the crisis between Israel and Iran as U.

President Trump took questions from reporters during the G7 summit in Canada. Mr. Trump commented on reports of Iran looking to de-escalate the conflict with Israel, and talked about Russia exiting the G8.

President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump for 50 minutes on Saturday, focusing on hostilities between Israel and Iran and calling for efforts to bring them to an end.

At an economic summit of world leaders in Canada Monday, President Trump weighed in on the Israel-Iran conflict, telling reporters Iran would "like to talk, but they should have done that before."He told reporters as he met with Group of Seven summit host Prime Minister Mark Carney that Iran has "to make a deal.

President Trump spoke by phone Saturday with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin about the raging conflict in the Middle East, the Kremlin said.

Despite evidence that the conflict between Israel and Iran is escalating, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed optimism on Sunday that peace would come soon and cited the possibility that Russia's Vladimir Putin could help.

French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected the idea proposed by US President Donald Trump that the war criminal and Russian leader Vladimir Putin should be involved in mediation efforts between Israel and Iran.

The president told me he was optimistic about ending foreign wars—then he ended our conversation to take a call from Putin.