The 8 wars Trump claims to have ‘settled’ in his last-minute Nobel Peace Prize pitch

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U.S. President Donald Trump signs a letter of congratulations as he meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Rwanda Olivier Nduhungirehe and the Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner in the Oval Office at the White House on June 27, 2025. Photo by Joe Raedle /Getty Images

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Egypt and Ethiopia

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This conflict is one the Trump administration dealt with in his first term, though it’s not technically a war, just a period of heightened tensions.

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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile has caused friction between the two countries because of Egypt’s worries about its water supply, for which it relies on the Nile. Sudan is also affected.

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The U.S. president facilitated talks between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan in Washington in 2019 and 2020, but negotiations stalled and no agreement was signed — though Trump has claimed on several occasions that his intervention helped stabilize the situation.

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Kosovo and Serbia

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Tensions have persisted between these two countries since Kosovo declared independence in 2008 until this day, and no official peace deal has been signed.

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In his first term as president, Trump negotiated a wide-ranging deal in 2020 between the countries, but much of what was agreed on was never carried out.

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Plus, it was never technically a war, so it also wasn’t technically a peace deal. Though Kosovo’s former president Vjosa Osmani did previously say that Donald Trump helped prevent further escalation in the Serbia-Kosovo region, the then Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic, denied that any escalation had been looming.

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U.S. President Donald Trump (C) participates in a signing ceremony and meeting with the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic (L) and the Prime Minister of Kosovo Avdullah Hoti (R) in the Oval Office of the White House on September 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. Photo by Pool /Getty Images

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Pakistan and India

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Trump has claimed that a ceasefire brokered between India and Pakistan in May 2025 was down to the U.S., after several days of cross-border strikes marked the worst regional fighting between the two nuclear-armed nations in decades.

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But while Pakistan’s government thanked Trump for his involvement, India downplayed the U.S. president’s claims, saying the two countries came to the agreement without external help.

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Meanwhile, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for the second year in a row on Friday, writing in a social media post: “(Trump’s) timely intervention helped bring Pakistan and India back from the brink and secure a ceasefire, that is holding till today.”

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Israel and Iran

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On June 23, 2025, Trump announced a peace deal between Iran and Israel following 12 days of military conflict. Though shaky, the ceasefire ultimately held until a new war broke out following a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran in February.

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In June, Washington and Iran signed a ceasefire agreement that quickly broke down over control of the Strait of Hormuz, and in September Trump rejected Iran’s seven-day ceasefire proposal.

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More recently, the U.S. president said in a Truth Social post that his administration will not launch an attack on Iran before November’s mid-term elections.

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At the White House on Wednesday, Trump claimed: “I’ve stopped maybe the total obliteration of the world because Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.”

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Israel and Hamas

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The U.S. administration did help to broker a ceasefire that came into effect in October last year, but while it ended large-scale hostilities, violence in the region has continued.

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Elsewhere, Trump has made it clear that he hopes to play a part in ending the Russia-Ukraine war. While speaking to press at the White House in July, he said an end to the conflict is “getting ‌closer than people realize.”

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He said he had held a “good call” with Putin ​on the Fourth of July holiday, “And President Zelenskiy actually wants it to end now. And we’re going to be going to NATO, and we’re going to be talking about it, and I think we’re going to ​get it,” he added. “I think we’re going to get it ended. It’s been a terrible situation.”

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