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The tensions between India and Pakistan, and the role of US diplomacy in it
The Trump administration repeatedly asserted it had “ended eight wars,” a claim widely reported and repeatedly fact-checked as exaggerated; press outlets document that he cited a mix of ceasefires, di...
The claim that President Trump “ended eight wars” is a headline-grabbing simplification: independent fact-checkers and international reporting show a mix of temporary ceasefires, disputed mediations, ...
Third‑party mediators such as Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and other regional actors provided leverage, channels of communication, and enforcement architecture that helped produce the temporary ceasefires Pre...
The Trump White House publicly credited itself with brokering multiple ceasefires, but independent reporting shows third-party states often supplied the decisive glue: Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and regiona...
The Trump administration’s 2025-26 diplomacy produced a mix of signed accords and short-term ceasefires; the clearest formal, signed agreement widely reported was the DRC–Rwanda deal, while most other...
The short answer: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) did not play a conventional, organized role in the mass anti‑colonial independence movement led by the Indian National Congress and is widely re...
policy under the Trump administration largely retained the long-standing line that Kashmir is a bilateral dispute to be settled by and —with U.S. readiness to assist—but the administration’s conduct i...
The White House promoted a series of high‑profile ceasefires and “peace deals” across conflicts from Gaza to South Asia, but the publicly available reporting indicates none of those touted ceasefires ...
President Trump has repeatedly claimed he “ended” eight wars since returning to office, a tally public reporting traces to a mix of ceasefires, mediated agreements, threats that blunted escalation and...
Peace scholars distinguish temporary cessations of hostilities from genuine war termination by looking for durable cessation plus political settlement, verified implementation, and post-conflict trans...
The question “how many wars has the president stopped?” demands a definitional first step: whether “stopped” means negotiated ceasefires, unilateral U.S. military pressure that led to de-escalation, o...
A series of public statements and social-media posts by President Trump claim he "ended eight wars"; contemporary reporting identifies the eight conflicts he referenced as Israel–Hamas/Gaza, Israel–Ir...
The short answer is: no — Mr. Trump’s repeated claim that he “ended eight wars” is an exaggeration; he has helped broker several ceasefires and agreements but many of the episodes he counts were not f...