Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we’re lamenting the end of summer but looking forward to the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level week in New York City next month, which means more SitRep pop-up editions from Turtle Bay. Reach out if you have any behind-the-scenes tidbits to share with us.

Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace deal claims, Israeli preparations for a new Gaza offensive, and Trump picking a fight with Venezuela.

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we’re lamenting the end of summer but looking forward to the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level week in New York City next month, which means more SitRep pop-up editions from Turtle Bay. Reach out if you have any behind-the-scenes tidbits to share with us.

Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace deal claims, Israeli preparations for a new Gaza offensive, and Trump picking a fight with Venezuela.

“I’ve ended six wars,” Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several reporters in the White House on Monday. That became “I’ve solved seven wars” by the time that he dialed into Fox & Friends for an interview the next day. The White House did not respond to a request for clarification on which conflicts Trump was referring to.

But at least some of those deals—and Trump’s role in them—aren’t as clear-cut as the U.S. president makes them out to be as he unabashedly lobbies for the Nobel Peace Prize. And contrary to Trump’s claim that he “did not do any cease-fires” in his second term thus far, the president’s own posts about several of the peace deals that he claims to have negotiated have explicitly mentioned a cease-fire.

India and Pakistan 

Trump’s claims of ending this year’s armed conflict between India and Pakistan began on May 10, when he posted on Truth Social that both countries had agreed to a “FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE” following “a long night of talks mediated by the United States.” Trump has continued to take credit for ending that conflict.

Pakistan enthusiastically co-signed that statement, even nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for what it called his “decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” during the conflict.

But India has consistently downplayed and disputed Trump’s role in securing the cease-fire, repeatedly saying that an end to the conflict was negotiated directly with Pakistani officials.

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The conflict between the two central African countries was the second one that Trump mentioned in his meeting with Zelensky.

The Trump administration did indeed play a role in securing a pause in hostilities between Rwanda and Congo, as well as in brokering a preliminary peace deal that was signed at the White House........

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