The Biden administration has now shifted its priority to containment, helping the region avoid all-out war between its two hegemonic superpowers.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not support a possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites.

President Joe Biden said Israel should hold off from attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities in retaliation for a missile barrage this week, as Group of Seven nations sought to tamp down a spiraling conflict that threatens to pull the US even deeper in.

Israel has pummeled Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike campaign over the last two weeks, killing over 1,400 people, injuring nearly 7,500 others and displacing more than one million people from their homes,

In Lebanon, Israeli attacks hit medics, Lebanese soldiers and caused massive explosions in Beirut’s southern suburbs.