US broadcaster CBS reports White House decision to move staff partly due to Israeli preparations for attack on Iran.

President Donald Trump warned Thursday of the possibility of “massive conflict” in the Middle East that could take place “soon.”

Washington’s anticipation of Iranian retaliation against American sites in Iraq due to potential Israeli attacks prompts regional withdrawals, says CBS News - Anadolu Ajansı

For a generation, the promotion of a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a core pillar of U.S. policy in the Middle East. But ahead of a major United Nations conference on how to advance that solution,

President Trump acknowledged on Thursday that there was a significant risk that Israel could soon attack Iran, but he said that “I don’t want them going in” at a moment when progress was being made toward an agreement to shut down Iran’s easiest pathway to building a nuclear weapon.

The Ukrainian president says he was informed the U.S. would divert key defensive weapons from Ukraine to the Middle East.