Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to Washington for a two-hour meeting on Tuesday, during which they agreed to hold further direct talks on a peace agreement.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday will join talks between Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors — the nations’ first direct talks in decades — as they strive to find a workable peace deal

According to sources quoted by Axios, the talks, which will take place amid fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and a wide-ranging Israeli ground invasion in southern Lebanon, are going to focus on the possibility of a ceasefire and on longer term disarming of Hezbollah, along with a peace deal between the countries.

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are escalating as the Trump administration declared a blockade of Iran’s ports and Tehran threatened regional strikes.