During a news conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, Trump also said he intended to move next week to trigger a "snapback" of sanctions on Iran at the United Nations.

The U.N. Security Council expressed "grave concern" Wednesday that agreements reached four months ago by the warring parties in Yemen have not been carried out and called for their implementation "without delay."

Residents thought an official operation was underway when a police truck carrying men in uniform arrived. A massacre unfolded moments later.

The United States vetoed on Friday a Kuwait-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Israel's use of force against Palestinian civilians, criticizing it as a "grossly one-sided view" that failed to blame Hamas for the recent violence.

Japan on Tuesday said it had detected what appeared to be a Chinese-flagged vessel, 350 km (218 miles) off Shanghai, conducting illegal transfers to a North Korean ship.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate halt to “all hostile acts” to avoid “a new conflagration” in the Middle East after Israeli forces bombed Iranian targets inside Syria.

The U.S. has given China a draft resolution for tougher U.N. sanctions on North Korea and is hoping for a quick vote on it by the U.N. Security Council.

U.S. senators said they agreed on a new bilateral package of sanctions on North Korea.

"We have pretty much exhausted all the things that we can do at the Security Council at this point," Nikki Haley said.

Two North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country's chemical weapons program were intercepted in the past six months.