Trump declares Iran ceasefire extension, talks in doubt

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : Sporadic violence has continued and Israel's military warned civilians against returning to dozens of villages in southern Lebanon.
35% : US President Donald Trump said he would indefinitely extend the ceasefire with Iran to allow for further peace talks, although it was not clear if Iran or Israel, the US ⁠ally in the two-month war, would agree.
35% : Israel-Lebanon talks On another front in the war, Israel and Lebanon, which have no diplomatic relations, will hold fresh talks in Washington tomorrow, a State Department official said.
34% : United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and others have condemned those threats, noting international humanitarian law forbids attacks targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.
34% : Next peace talks uncertain The US and Israel began the war on 28 February with aerial bombardments of Iran.
33% : Hezbollah said it launched an attack on northern Israel in retaliation for what it said were Israeli violations of the ceasefire, the first such claim since the truce began.
28% : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has for decades sought to oust Iran's leadership, but Mr Trump has given shifting and sometimes contradictory rationales for joining Israel to launch the war and how he foresees it ending, stirring confusion in global markets.

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