What We Know About the US-Iran Ceasefire: Explainer

The US and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, averting President Donald Trump’s threatened escalation of a war that has already killed thousands of people and sparked a global energy crunch.

The truce buys time for the two sides to try to reach a deal that definitively ends the conflict. Trump has claimed that “almost all of the various points of past contention” have been ironed out between the US and Iran. They’ve been invited by Pakistan, a key mediator of the ceasefire, to send delegations to Islamabad for in-person negotiations on April 10.

The announcement of the pause ...