US president told Fox News that Nato troops stayed away from frontline in Afghanistan

Perspective: Trump's latest NATO broadside outrages America's allies amid lingering doubts over the alliance's future.

US President Donald Trump recently caused a storm of controversy after he suggested that NATO troops, including British soldiers, “stayed a little back” from front-line combat during the 20-year war in Afghanistan.

LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's ‌comments ​that NATO troops stayed ‌off the front line in Afghanistan were "deeply disappointing", a ​British minister said on Friday, noting that many European soldiers had died supporting American-led ‍operations.

Donald Trump’s claim that America’s allies stayed away from the front lines in Afghanistan is “ridiculous”, a defence minister and former commando said as relatives of Britons killed and wounded in the conflict condemned the US president’s remarks.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte confronted Donald Trump very sharply, face to face, reminding the U.S. president how many Europeans died defending Americans in Afghanistan.

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In a dramatic speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which he lobbed grievances at NATO members from Canada to Denmark, Trump said he was not considering military action to acquire Greenland.