ToplinePresident Donald Trump said he was hopeful the upcoming 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon would lead to the 10th conflict he solved in office—repeating a frequent misleading talking point as the U.S. and Iran continue peace negotiations.Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social.AFP via Getty ImagesKey FactsTrump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun would agree to a 10-day ceasefire beginning at 5 p.m. EDT.Trump made the announcement in a brief post on Truth Social on Thursday morning, and later invited Netanyahu and Aoun to the White House for negotiations—which Trump claimed would be the first “meaningful” talks between the two nations since 1983.Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam praised the ceasefire, which he called a “pivotal Lebanese demand for which we have strived since the very first day of the war.”Israel has been fighting Lebanese political party and militant group Hezbollah, after it launched attacks following Israel’s campaign of air strikes against Iran.Earlier on Thursday morning, Aoun’s office confirmed he spoke to Trump in a phone call, where he urged the U.S. president to keep pressing for a ceasefire with Israel.Officials from Pakistan, who hosted the Iran-U.S. peace negotiations last week, said peace in Lebanon was “essential” for continued peace talks with Iran.Crucial QuoteA ceasefire in Lebanon is “as important as a ceasefire in Iran," Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammed-Bagher Ghalibaf told Lebanese parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday, NBC News reported citing Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. Ghalibaf reportedly said the Iranians would continue pushing for a “permanent ceasefire in all areas of conflict.”News PegSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Trump said negotiations with Iran were going very well and he wasn’t sure if the two-week ceasefire would need to be extended. “We have a very good relationship with Iran right now, as hard as it is to believe.” The president said he might travel to Islamabad if a peace deal is reached, telling reporters “If a deal is signed in Islamabad I may go." He also claimed Iran has agreed to give up its “nuclear dust”—possibly referring to the country’s enriched uranium used for its nuclear program—but Iranian officials have not confirmed this as of Thursday afternoon.Key BackgroundIsrael and Lebanon have technically been at war since 1948, after Lebanon joined other Arab states during the first Arab-Israeli War after Israel was created. Israel and Lebanon signed an armistice in 1949, but the conflict has continued to heat up over the last few decades. The Israeli military has crossed the border to fight Hezbollah multiple times, including during the Israel-Hamas war following the October 7 attacks in 2023. Hezbollah is an important Iranian ally, and part of the country’s “Axis of Resistance” group of militant groups across the Middle East. Iran’s leaders have consistently stressed that a ceasefire in Lebanon was a requirement for peace talks. However, Israel’s war against the group continued during the first round of negotiations, defying the expectations of the Iranian negotiators and Pakistani mediators, the Associated Press reported. Israel’s air strikes on Lebanon continued through the previous negotiations, killing at least 182 people last Wednesday alone.Has Trump Solved Nine Wars?In his post announcing the ceasefire, Trump said that he “solved” nine wars—repeating a claim he makes frequently At the State of the Union address he claimed he ended eight wars, and an infographic published by the State Department last year credited him for “ending” conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Israel and Hamas. Israel began bombing Iran again on Feb. 28 in coordination with the U.S. Some Ceasefires ReachedTrump claimed to end the five-day border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia last July. The two countries began fighting again in December, then signed another ceasefire weeks later. Rwanda and the DRC also signed a peace deal in December. However, fighting between the Congolese military and a rebel group associated with Rwanda have continued. Further peace talks between the two sides are currently ongoing in Switzerland, with the U.S. acting as one of the mediators. India and Pakistan have been at odds since the partition of India in 1947, and the two countries fought brief skirmishes again last year. The U.S. brokered a truce to the conflict, but not a peace deal. Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas in October, although violence in the territory has continued and the Palestinian militant group has so far resisted disarming—one of the key stipulations in the deal. The Other Conflicts Trump ‘solved’Some of these conflicts are a bit misleading: Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire agreement in 2023, but didn’t finalize a peace deal until last year. Egypt and Ethiopia were never at war, but are in a dispute over Ethiopia’s plan to build a dam on the Nile River. The dispute has not turned violent so far. Kosovo and Serbia also have not been at war since Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but Trump claimed to have stopped an impending war in a Truth Social post as tensions between the two countries rose last year. It was not immediately clear which conflict was the ninth war on Trump’s list, although he could be referring to the ongoing negotiations to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. The two countries signed a brief ceasefire over Orthodox Easter, but fighting has already resumed, the Associated Press reported.