Washington DC/IBNS, May 8 -- US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he wants the India-Pakistan confrontation to end after New Delhi avenged the deadly Pahalgam terror attack with Operation Sindoor in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and beyond.

Trump also offered to mediate between the two nuclear power-armed South Asian countries, who have been at loggerheads over Jammu and Kashmir since 1947, saying he would be there to help.

Earlier after the Indian Army targeted and demolished nine terrorist bases in PoK and Pakistan, Trump had said, "It's a shame, we just heard about it just as we were walking in the doors of the Oval. I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past."

"They've been fighting for a...