The U.S. State Department has established a Middle East task force to help coordinate support for U.S. citizens, diplomatic missions and personnel amid the conflict between Israel and Iran, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV/DUBAI >> An Israeli strike hit Iran’s state broadcaster today as Iran called on U.S. President Donald Trump to force a ceasefire in the four-day-old aerial war, while Israel’s prime minister said his country was on the “path to victory”.

The Senate will vote on the United States’s involvement in Israeli operations against Iran after a new Democratic-led resolution attempting to bar President Donald Trump from joining the conflict without Congress’s approval was introduced.