Hours of talks aimed at de-escalating fighting between Israel and Iran have failed to produce a diplomatic breakthrough as the war enters its second week with a fresh round of strikes between the two

The first face-to-face meeting between Western and Iranian officials in the weeklong war concluded after four hours with no sign of an immediate breakthrough.

Israel and Iran pummeled each other with airstrikes for the eighth consecutive day today, even as European diplomats met with an Iranian delegation in an effort to cool the conflict. Those talks ended with no signs of a breakthrough.