President Trump returned to Washington on Tuesday to deal with the war between Iran and Israel, as the two sides exchanged deadly fire for a fifth day and Israeli officials pressed the United States to join its military campaign against Tehran.

Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.

Elsewhere, the Foreign Office advises against all travel to within 20km of the border with Libya, which is on the western side of Egypt, far from Israel and Gaza. The only exception in that region is the town of El Salloum, where the Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel.