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New Delhi: US President Donald Trump on Friday added more cases to his tally of international disputes he says he personally mediated, raising the number to 11. The latest list included the May flare-up between India and Pakistan, a claim New Delhi has firmly denied. Trump’s assertion came through a social media repost of Congressman Byron Donalds, who shared the updated list. The Congressman described it as proof of “PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH in action and the results are indisputable.”
Earlier, Trump had spoken of mediating seven global conflicts. The revised list, however, features both old and new entries. Among the disputes he has repeatedly cited are Armenia–Azerbaijan, Cambodia–Thailand, Congo–Rwanda, Egypt–Ethiopia, Serbia–Kosovo and India–Pakistan.
Also added were five conflicts involving Israel’s relations with countries across the Middle East and Africa — Iran, Morocco, Sudan, the UAE and Bahrain. The US President highlighted these while addressing reporters in London alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his state visit to the UK.
At the briefing, Trump said his “biggest disappointment” was Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he accused of “letting him down” over the Ukraine war. Despite that, he insisted he had succeeded in preventing escalation between India and Pakistan, going so far as to claim he had “stopped potential nuclear war” after Operation Sindoor. India has consistently rejected this narrative.
Trump has long tied such pronouncements to his pursuit of a Nobel Peace Prize. He has claimed credit for the Armenia–Azerbaijan settlement, an agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a truce between Thailand and Cambodia over a contested border area earlier this year. He also listed the resolution of the Nile water dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia, as well as what he called the most recent Israel–Iran conflict in June.
