Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has urged his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to help end the Middle East war, now in its second month, AFP reports.

“I say to President Trump: no one will be able to stop the war in our region, in the Gulf … Please, help us to stop the war, you are capable of it,” Sisi said in joint remarks to the press in Cairo alongside Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.