India, March 26 -- President Donald Trump is privately telling advisers that he wants the conflict to end quickly even though a peaceful solution is still not clear.

Nearly a month into the war, Trump has asked his team to follow a four-to-six-week timeline he has already shared in public. He hopes the war will end before his planned mid-May meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

According to the Wall Street Journal, he has also admitted in private that the war is taking focus away from important issues like midterm elections, immigration enforcement and other government work.

"This thing is going to be settled very soon," Trump said Tuesday, but added that some military leaders were "not interested in settlement" and are more focused...