Starmer says Trump should apologize for ‘insulting’ UK troops

The US president had claimed that allied soldiers stayed “off the front lines” in Afghanistan

US President Donald Trump should apologize for downplaying the role of America’s allies in the war in Afghanistan, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said.

In 2001, the US invoked NATO’s Article 5 after the 9/11 attacks, requiring member states to support the invasion of Afghanistan. Trump, however, has repeatedly accused the bloc’s...