First 100 days: Where President Trump stands on key issues
Mr Trump has made a dramatic shift in foreign policy, breaking from the “America First” agenda he promised during the presidential campaign.
He bombed a Syrian air base in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town.
The US military then dropped a 21,600lb (9,800kg) bomb on a tunnel complex used by Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.
Mr Trump has taken a hard-line stance towards combating IS and has even at times asserted the US should commit tens of thousands of ground troops to the fight.
He professed support for Nato after previously calling the alliance “obsolete” and said it should do more to combat terrorism in the Middle East, maintaining that US allies should spend more on their own protection.
Tensions have also escalated on the Korean peninsula, where American military has ordered a navy strike group amid heated rhetoric from both the US and North Korea
Pyongyang marked the 105th birthday of the nation’s founding president, Kim Il-sung, with a huge military parade before conducting a failed rocket test.
On the eve of the G20 summit in Germany, he warned of “severe consequences” following the country’s long-range missile test.
Relations with China have soured over the belligerence of North Korea, and a US arms deal with Taiwan.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has said it was launching a review of whether lifting sanctions against Iran was in the US’s national security interests, but acknowledged Tehran was compliant with the historic 2015 nuclear deal.
During his presidential campaign, Mr Trump called the agreement “the worst deal ever negotiated”.
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