NATO veterans say Trump 'crossed red line' questioning their Afghan service


  • World
  • Friday, 23 Jan 2026

Afghan security forces and a British soldier with NATO-led Resolute Support Mission stand guard at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan May 31, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Veterans ‌from across Europe hit back at U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion that they had stayed "a little off the front lines" in ‌Afghanistan, saying on Friday that hundreds of their comrades had died fighting alongside American forces.

Senior politicians joined the criticism, with the ‌British prime minister's office saying Trump had been "wrong to diminish the role of NATO troops" during two decades of war.

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