U.S. President Donald Trump has provoked outrage and distress in the U.K. with his suggestion that troops from NATO countries stayed away from the frontline during the war in Afghanistan

President Trump has set off a firestorm in the United Kingdom and among NATO allies whose troops fought and died in Afghanistan by claiming NATO forces “stayed a little back” from the front lines. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and leaders across the political spectrum,

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the president’s remarks “insulting and frankly appalling.”

US President Donald Trump's claim that Nato troops stayed back from the front lines during the 20-year war in Afghanistan has sparked widespread outrage among European military veterans and relatives of the fallen.