{"id":2096,"date":"2026-10-03T13:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2026-10-03T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:03:46","slug":"trump-officials-hold-camp-david-talks-on-iran-war-yemen-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Trump officials hold Camp David talks on Iran war, Yemen conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s senior national security officials met at Camp David on Friday for closed-door discussions on the war with Iran and the conflict involving Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen, Axios reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Citing three US officials, Axios said Vice President JD Vance chaired the meeting, which lasted several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, special envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine also attended.<\/p>\n<p>One US official said issues were either resolved or discussed at length during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>With negotiations stalled, Trump is considering a return to large-scale military operations against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is preparing to deploy a third aircraft carrier strike group and additional Marine ships to the Middle East, potentially adding up to 10,000 troops, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Citing US officials, the newspaper said the forces are expected to arrive by the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has previously said he could resume strikes on Iran after the US midterm elections in early November if no agreement is reached.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is urging Washington to join air strikes against the Houthis ahead of a planned offensive by forces fighting the group in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has so far been reluctant to get involved, although US officials said he could change course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s senior national security officials met at Camp David on Friday for closed-door discussions on the war with Iran and the conflict involving Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen, Axios reported. Citing three US officials, Axios said Vice President JD Vance chaired the meeting, which lasted several hours. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, special envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine also attended. One US official said issues were either resolved or discussed at length&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}