Iran on Tuesday urged the United States to meet its demands in a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after President Donald Trump spoke of "positive momentum" to end their eight-month war.

"The conflict with Iran will not be resolved through military means, nor by intensifying sanctions," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Iran's IRNA news agency.

President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believes the war in Iran "militarily is effectively over," suggesting that — at least for now — he's not prepared to resume the bombardment that has devastated the Islamic Republic and caused reverberations across the global economy.

The president made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room after meeting earlier in the day with Qatar's prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to convey proposals to Tehran aimed at ending the war, Al-Arabiya television reported on Monday.

“A secret visit to Tehran by an Iraqi delegation was headed by the Iraqi prime minister and Trump expressed his approval of proposals presented by the Iraqi prime minister during telephone conversations,” Al-Arabiya added.

Syria's foreign minister on Monday insisted that his country has no troops deployed in Yemen and was not planning on sending any, after Yemeni sources told AFP that Syrian soldiers were in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

"There is no deployment of troops to Yemen nor is there a plan for such deployment in the near future," Asaad al-Shaibani said during a press conference.

The death toll from Saudi strikes on Yemen’s Sanaa province climbed to 44, including more than 20 children, the Houthis said on their television channel Monday.

A 2022 truce that had paused fighting in Yemen’s long-running conflict fell apart in July, restarting fighting between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government.

Saudi authorities briefly warned Riyadh's residents of an aerial threat on Monday, a day after an attack on a skyscraper belonging to oil giant Aramco rattled the capital's business district.

Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, has faced near-daily strikes from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis for weeks, after a truce in their long-running conflict unraveled in July.

U.S. President Donald Trump cast doubt on renewed fighting with Iran, telling CNN it was "highly unlikely," ahead of a meeting with mediator Qatar's prime minister on Monday.

Trump has threatened to resume strikes in recent weeks, with U.S. media reports suggesting that hostilities could restart after last Tuesday's midterm elections.

Tens of thousands of people, many of them dressed in red, marched through Amsterdam on Sunday in a mass demonstration aimed at pressing the Dutch government to take more decisive action against Israel over Gaza.

The organizers of "Red Line" demonstrations in the Netherlands called for measures including stricter trade sanctions on Israel, officially declaring that Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide and halting all arms sales to Israel.

Two trains collided Sunday south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing seven people and injuring at least 125, authorities said. The train's conductor was among those killed.

The Health Ministry gave the casualty toll, saying in a statement that over 70 of the injured were discharged after receiving treatment.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog formally gave opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to form the next government Sunday evening.

Complex coalition negotiations still lie ahead, but it marked a significant step in the former military chief's effort to oust Israel's longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, after elections held in a deeply divided country. Israel remains scarred by the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and the multifront wars they triggered.