A hard-won pause between the US and Iran is already under strain, threatening to pull the region and the world into a far deeper crisis, chief international correspondent Bel Trew writes

Air strikes hit the Tyre and Nabatieh areas hours after the US-Iran ceasefire was announced.

AP journalists saw charred bodies in vehicles and on the ground at one of Beirut’s busiest intersections in the central Corniche al Mazraa neighborhood, a mixed commercial and…