New Delhi, July 27 -- US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) rejected claims that Washington is facing a problem with its depleting weapons stockpile, adding that "we have far more munitions than anyone in the world, and far more than we need."

Trump made these remarks to The Wall Street Journal days after The New York Times reported that the administration had halted plans to expand military operations in Tehran amid concerns that a prolonged conflict could further deplete the Pentagon's already diminished stockpile of Patriot missile interceptors and other air defence munitions in the Middle East.

According to officials cited by The Wall Street Journal, US Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper believes that Washington's tro...