The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.

Allowing all ships through the Strait of Hormuz will calm markets but the war has created new problems.

Analysts fear long-lasting economic damage has already been set in motion.

Attacks hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley hours after a US-Iran ceasefire was announced.

The provisional truce comes more than a month after the US and Israel launched coordinated attacks on Iran.