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US President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that he believed the war with Iran would be over soon and said the armed forces were experiencing issues with supplies of some weapons.

An attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels late Thursday wounded 11 civilians in southern Saudi Arabia, the Riyadh-led coalition said, an unprecedented toll in the kingdom in over four years of hostilities.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday made another attempt to curb birthright citizenship, signing an order preventing children of mothers who travel to the United States to give birth from automatically becoming Americans.

The move comes after a year-long Commerce Department probe on imports of the material, which Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called a "foundational product" going into chips.

An economist sounded the alarm on the Trump administration's "desperate attempt" to avoid "blaring warnings" from financial markets.In a Thursday opinion column published by The New York Times, economist Eswar Prasad explained why President Donald Trump and the U.S. Treasury were interested in buying billions of dollars' worth of Japanese yen and intervening in the country's currency policy."But they are tied together by one big problem: unsustainably high levels of government debt," Prasad wrote. "Currency market intervention is a desperate attempt by Tokyo and Washington to evade the blaring warnings from financial markets."Prasad noted, "It's rare for the United States to intervene in another country's currency policy," and "it usually happens because there is a crisis."However, the Trump administration has been propping up the currencies in allied countries to reward friends and push its agenda. "It seems risky and expensive to buy another country's currency or even offer to temporarily swap dollars for that currency, especially one whose value is falling," Prasad wrote. "The administration has U.S. economic interests in mind but is also keen to propagate its policies and reward its allies."Prasad pointed out that the Trump administration "propped up the Argentine peso" in October and discussed similarly intervening in the United Arab Emirates. "None of those countries had reached the level of emergency usually required," he wrote. "None of these actions were born of benevolence."According to Prasad, the Trump Treasury is also interested in buying yen to stop it from falling because a weak yen means pricier imports and higher debt costs for Japan, but it also erases Trump's tariffs. However, the U.S. can't outrun its debt, and "with no sign of any discipline on fiscal matters, it will probably result in Washington digging itself into an even deeper debt hole," Prasad wrote.

At least two people were killed and 13 wounded after a bomb planted on a minibus exploded on Thursday in the Syrian town of Jaramana near capital Damascus, state media reported, citing the health ministry.

Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Vance said Washington was dealing with an unpredictable political structure in Iran, where different factions hold sharply different views on the ongoing conflict.

Iran conveyed through intermediaries that any attacks on its power plants would trigger strikes on the same targets in the Gulf, officials said.