New Delhi, June 25 -- US President Donald Trump may be one of the most powerful leaders in the world, but he has now got a pretty unusual nickname from none other than the chief of NATO - 'Daddy'.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday likened Trump to a 'daddy' stopping a schoolyard fight between two children - an analogy he drew to describe the US President's role in brokering a ceasefire deal between Israel and Iran.

Speaking to reporters during a NATO summit in The Hague, Donald Trump had reprised his analogy of warring countries Iran and Israel being like squabbling children.

"They've had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard," Trump told the press during a briefing.

"You know, they fight like hell. You can't stop th...