“I thought this was going to be one of the easier ones, it’s actually one of the most difficult.”
That’s what Donald Trump said about ending the war in Ukraine, on 18 August.
The White House has claimed the US president has ended six wars.
As he tries to make it a seventh, let’s look at some of the conflicts Trump’s gotten involved with so far…
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Trump brought together the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on 8 August to sign a joint declaration pledging to seek peaceful relations between nations that have been at odds since the 1980s.
The two countries committed to a ceasefire in 2023 and in March claimed to have agreed to a draft peace agreement but it has not yet been signed.
The White House-brokered agreement falls short of a formal peace treaty that would place legally binding obligations on the countries.
One snag remains over whether the agreement requires Armenia to revise its constitution.
Cambodia and Thailand
Trump helped bring Thailand to the table for talks after long-held tensions spilled over in July into fighting.
The US president withheld deals on tariffs with both countries until the conflict ended.
Up until that point, Thailand had rejected third-party mediation and subsequent talks led to a fragile agreement.
Trump went on to impose a 19% tariff on both nations’ US-bound exports – lower than initially threatened.
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a US-brokered peace agreement on 27 June.
This followed pressure from Trump, raising hopes for an end to fighting that has killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands.
The fighting is the latest in a decades-long conflict with roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Trump warned of “very severe penalties, financial and otherwise” if the agreement is violated.
India and Pakistan
There were worries that when the two nuclear-powered nations clashed in May it could spiral out of control.
Delhi blamed an attack in India on Islamabad.
A ceasefire was announced on 10 May, after four days of fighting, but it addressed few of the issues that divide India and Pakistan, which have fought three major wars since independence from Britain in 1947.
Days after the ceasefire, Trump said he used the threat of cutting trade with the countries to secure the deal.
India disputed the idea that US pressure led to the ceasefire, and that trade was a factor.
Egypt and Ethiopia
Egypt and Ethiopia have long disputed the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Cairo regards as a national security issue.
In July, Trump said he was “working on that one problem,” and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt included Egypt and Ethiopia in a list of conflicts that “the president has now ended.”
It’s unclear what action Trump took.
Serbia and Kosovo
Trump brokered an agreement between the two during his first term.
Without providing evidence, Trump said in June he had “stopped” war between the countries during his first term and “I will fix it again”.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008, almost a decade after NATO bombed Serbian forces to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians from the region during a 1998-1999 counter-insurgency war. But Serbia still regards Kosovo as an integral part of its territory.
The countries have signed no peace deal.
Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani said in July that in “the last few weeks”, Trump had prevented further escalation in the region – without elaborating.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic denied that any escalation had been forthcoming.