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President Donald Trump spoke with Libyan general Khalifa Haftar Monday, praising his role in fighting terrorism and securing Libya's vast oil resources even as Haftar's troops continue their offensive against the UN and US-backed government in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

Donald Trump's recent designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, has only increased the ambiguity surrounding the definition of the term terrorism.

U.S. president Donald Trump has followed through on his statement last week by signing a proclamation that formally recognises "Israel's" sovereignty over Golan Heights that it seized from Syria in 1967.

The Trump Administration is making it clear that it is working together with the Israeli government to impose a Greater Israel rather than the two-state solution on the 1967 border In two weeks’ time, the US Consulate General in Jerusalem will be absorbed by the American Embassy to Israel, which was moved to Jerusalem in May, 2018. The Palestinian leadership (PL) has shown resentment towards the move which has been in the works for months.

Since assuming office, US President Donald Trump has pushed a hard-line policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington has recognized Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and opened an embassy there in May 2018, moves widely criticized by the international community. The draft of the deal consists of 175 to 200 pages, stressing that less than five people know about its full contents including the American President Donald Trump

The US has ended it support for the UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) and has also halt other humanitarian support to the Palestinians, including to hospitals in Jerusalem providing cancer treatment to children. The move was seen as revenge for Palestinian officials boycotting the US government.

US President Donald Trump made it clear that the goal of the presence of US troops in the Middle East is not only to plunder their natural resources like oil but also to protect Isreal.

In an infograph released this month by Niall McCarthy he said Obama held the record for bombs dropped on Afghanistan with 5,101 releases recorded in total. But according to U.S. Air Forces Central Command data, manned and unmanned aircraft released 5,213 weapons between January and the end of September 2018.