John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., told the Washington Examiner he believes the likelihood that the new ceasefire deal, set to last for 60 days, will improve upon the agreement enacted in 2006 is "effectively zero.

In what might be his final achievement as president, Joe Biden, his diplomats, and their French counterparts have brokered a ceasefire in the increasingly brutal yearlong war between Israel and Hezbollah’s Islamist militia in Lebanon.