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United States President Donald Trump has declared a “victory for everybody” as the ceasefire that ended 12 days of fighting between Iran and Israel continues to hold, despite uncertainty over the effectiveness of US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, Aljazeera reported.

Trump, speaking in The Hague where he attended a NATO summit on Wednesday, said his decision to join Israel’s attacks by targeting Iranian nuclear sites with huge bunker-busting bombs had ended the war, calling it “a victory for everybody”.

He shrugged off an initial assessment by the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that Iran’s path to building a nuclear weapon may have been set back only by months, saying the findings were “inconclusive” and he believed the sites had been destroyed, according to Aljazeera.

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Iran's nuclear programme has been "set back decades", a day after he claimed to have brokered a truce between the Shiite state and Israel, Times of India reported.

"They're not going to be building bombs for a long time," said Trump, insisting that US strikes caused 'total obliteration' at Iran nuclear sites.

He also said that the ceasefire between the Jewish nation and the Khamenei-led state was "going very well".

The UK government is to buy at least 12 new fighter jets that can carry nuclear bombs, the prime minister has announced, BBC reported.

Sir Keir Starmer said at the Nato summit in The Hague that the new US-made F-35A jets would join Nato's airborne nuclear mission. 

"We will procure at least 12 and we will make these aircraft able to bear nuclear weapons if necessary," said the prime minister, adding the procurement was in "response to a growing nuclear threat".

Downing Street says the move is "the biggest strengthening of the UK's nuclear posture in a generation".

President Donald Trump is meeting with members of a NATO alliance that he has worked to bend to his will over the years, Associated Press reported.

NATO leaders agreed Wednesday on a massive hike in defense spending after pressure from Trump, and expressed their “ironclad commitment” to come to each other’s aid if attacked.

The 32 leaders endorsed a final summit statement saying: “Allies commit to invest 5% of GDP annually on core defence requirements as well as defence-and security-related spending by 2035 to ensure our individual and collective obligations.”