Military operations, diplomatic negotiations and regional security tensions continue to shape developments across Iran, Israel and Lebanon as efforts to secure a broader agreement are under way.

Is the Iran war headed for a stalemate? A week after President Donald Trump signaled that a provisional peace deal with Iran was in the offing, the pendulum has swung back the other way — raising fresh questions about how quickly the global economic upheaval and ongoing paroxysms of Middle East violence might subside.