WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump said there was a "substantial chance" of U.S. negotiations with Iran and that he would decide within two weeks whether diplomacy keeps America out of the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict.

Back-and-forth attacks between Israel and Iran continued overnight as the conflict entered its seventh day, with an inactive Iranian nuclear reactor and an Israeli hospital among the sites hit.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the US president believes there is a "substantial chance of negotiations" with Iran "in the near future".