U.S. President Donald Trump told a NATO summit that the United States wanted to "remain" with the alliance, a source at inside the closed-door session said, despite his earlier anger at European allies over the Iran war.

People in Bahrain and Kuwait awoke on Wednesday to the now familiar sound of warning sirens and explosions in the distance, as Iranian strikes again dashed hopes of a return to normalcy.

U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace is planning a pilot "humanitarian zone" in southern Gaza which would aim to accommodate tens of thousands of vetted Palestinian civilians, a board official told AFP.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Washington would give Kyiv the "the right to make" Patriot air-defense missiles as he met Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky at NATO's summit.

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that U.S. forces would strike Iran "hard" in the coming night, after earlier declaring Washington's ceasefire with Iran over at a NATO summit in Ankara.

"We're gonna hit 'em hard tonight," he said before holding talks with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, saying: "They violate the agreement every day."

The Lebanese judiciary on Wednesday approved the release of crooner-turned-fugitive militant Fadl Shaker months after he surrendered himself to authorities, a judicial official told AFP.

The entertainer, born to a Lebanese father and a Palestinian mother, turned himself over to authorities in October after more than a decade in hiding in a Palestinian refugee camp.

The Egyptian football federation said Wednesday it had asked for the officiating team who handled the Pharoahs loss 3-2 last-16 to Argentina to be thrown out of the World Cup.

"Hany Aburida, President of the Egyptian Football Federation, filed a complaint with FIFA, demanding an investigation into the French referee Francois Letexier... after the serious refereeing mistakes committed by the team of referees and double standards, which caused the Egypt team to lose the match and leave the World Cup," said a statement from the federation.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to halt all trade with Spain amid a bitter row over Madrid's defense spending and failure to help Washington with the Iran war.

"Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore," Trump said as he arrived at a NATO summit in Ankara.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday the ceasefire with Iran was over, calling Tehran "sick" after Washington launched strikes on the Islamic Republic and Iran said it targeted U.S. bases in the Gulf.

"As far as I'm concerned, it's over," Trump said at a NATO summit in Ankara when asked if the truce with Iran was now finished. "It's just a waste of time dealing with them."

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in Ankara Wednesday where he is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of NATO summit, Turkish television stations reported.

The summit of the military alliance, which closes on Wednesday, has brought 36 heads of state together.