Israel and Lebanon met in Washington D.C.
On Tuesday to talk about peace, and before you get your hopes up, no ceasefire yet, but.
It was still a big historic moment because Lebanon and Israel hadn't met one-on-one to hash out their ish in decades.
And as you may be aware, there's a lot of ish.
Israeli tanks roll into southern Lebanon.
The Israelis said they had one goal to root out once and for all Palestinian bases
across the border from their northern settlements.
Hezbollah says it's ready for what would be Israel's fourth invasion.
In 50 years.
Notably absent from the peace talks was Hezbollah, who started this most recent war with Israel.
Hezbollah draws most of its support from Shiites in Lebanon's south, not so much the rest of the country's Muslims,
and even less so the country's Christians,
all to say this is a complicated war, which will surely be followed by a fragile peace,
and we 're going to get into it on Today Explained.
What should we make of the Iran war ceasefire announcement, and where do things go from here?
If anything has surprised me over the last 24 hours,
it 's that Iran agreed to a ceasefire, and particularly that Iran agreed to a ceasefire
after that outrageous message that President Trump put out.
I'm Jake Sullivan.
And I'm John Feiner.