“If the Middle East is unstable, the world will not be at peace,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday. “If the conflict escalates further, not only will the conflicting parties suffer greater losses, but regional countries will also suffer greatly.”

China hosted a summit for African leaders last week while the Trump administration weighed adding two dozen more African countries to its travel ban list.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel and Iran traded strikes a week into their war on Friday as President Donald Trump weighed U.S. military involvement and key European ministers meeting with Iran’s top diplomat in Geneva scrambled to negotiate a diplomatic solution to the conflict.