Britain looking carefully at suicides among Afghan veterans

FILE PHOTO: Military personnel board an RAF Voyager aircraft at RAF Brize Norton, as they leave for Afghanistan to provide support to British nationals leaving the country, August 14, 2021. Sharon Floyd/RAF/UK Ministry of Defence 2021/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is investigating whether or not some veterans from the Afghan war have taken their own lives because they are so devastated by the chaotic withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from the country Britain's armed forces minister said on Monday.

The humiliation of the lightning Taliban takeover in Afghanistan after a 20-year war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and at least a trillion dollars has dismayed veterans of the war.