: U.S Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at the State Department on Thursday (June 4) as a new U.S.-mediated ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon raised hopes for progress toward ending the wider U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

However there was still uncertainty about how and when the ceasefire would be implemented.

Tehran has made a ceasefire in Lebanon a condition for any peace deal with Washington, and has suggested in recent days that it could intervene directly in support of its proxy Hezbollah if Israel keeps up or escalates attacks there.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the latest ceasefire would come into force within 24 hours of all concerned parties approving it, appearing to refer to Hezbollah, which is not directly part of the agreement and has not commented on it.

But casting doubt on the robustness of the truce, Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday the military would continue to strike in Lebanon for the time being and would not be withdrawing from the south.

The agreement comes after a flare-up in violence across the region. Iranian forces traded attacks in the Gulf on Wednesday (June 3) in one of the most intense bouts of fighting since a separate ceasefire halted large-scale U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran in early April.

Iranian forces struck Kuwait, damaging its airport and injuring dozens of people, authorities said, while the U.S. military carried out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz. The strait, through which a fifth of the global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies normally flow, remains largely closed more than three months after the U.S. and Israel launched their strikes on Iran.

Oil prices on Thursday lost some of the previous day's gains on hopes that the Lebanon ceasefire could help Washington and Iran find a diplomatic off-ramp from their war.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who is under pressure to bring down fuel prices, suggested there could be progress in negotiations with Iran as soon as this weekend.

Trump said that parties were working to separate the issue of reopening the strait from the conflict in Lebanon.

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1. SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO GREETS THE MEDIA WITH KUWAITI FOREIGN MINISTER SHEIKH JARRAH JABER AL-AHMAD AL-SABAH AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT, SHAKE HANDS AND BOTH EXIT