Author: Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY

President Donald Trump will discuss his still-secret Middle East peace plan next week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benjamin Gantz.

“We will do everything we need to do to evaluate whether there was something that took place there,” Pompeo told Tony Katz, a radio show host.

National security experts warned of Middle East chaos and dangers for Americans abroad after the U.S. strike that killed Iran general Qasem Soleimani.

After the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Washington and Tehran issued stark warnings Thursday underscoring the escalating U.S.-Iran tensions.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to say how much he knew about the Ukraine pressure campaign. In Kyiv, he plans to meet with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

For decades, Turkey had deployed an army of lobbyists to stop the measure. But that effort fell short on Thursday.

The murders in Florida come at an already tense time. The kingdom’s role in the 2018 slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains a festering wound.

The legislation comes amid increasing scrutiny of China’s human rights abuses, against democracy protesters in Hong Kong and nearly 1 million Uighurs.

The State Department released emails Friday showing that Pompeo and Giuliani spoke by phone twice in late March.

In Ukraine, the U.S. impeachment scandal has jeopardized Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidency – and his country’s future – as much as Donald Trump’s.