The US president says Nato troops stayed "a little off the front lines" - despite 457 UK military deaths in the conflict.

A wily former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, famously said that “a week is a long time in politics.” If anything, he was guilty of understatement.

European veterans, families of the fallen, and politicians are voicing outrage over Trump's claim NATO allies stayed behind the front lines in Afghanistan.

President Donald Trump praised UK soldiers after backlash for criticizing NATO allies in Afghanistan on Saturday, hailing troops as "great and very brave."

Prince Harry criticized Trump for downplaying NATO allies’ role in Afghanistan, citing shared sacrifice and the war’s human cost.

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

US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the frontlines in Afghanistan.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni calls Trump's NATO comments about Afghanistan "unacceptable," defending Italy's sacrifice of 53 soldiers killed in the conflict.