Starmer criticizes Trump’s Afghanistan commentsAFP, LONDONBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday denounced as “insulting” President Donald Trump’s claim that troops from NATO allies avoided the front line in Afghanistan, as anger grows at the US president’s remarks. “They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan,” Trump told the US outlet, referring to NATO allies. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a community group in Hertfordshire, England, on Thursday. “Let me start by paying tribute to 457 of our armed services who lost their lives in Afghanistan,” Starmer said in a video message. More than 150,000 UK armed forces personnel served in Afghanistan between September 2001 and August 2021, the British Ministry of Defence said, making the UK the second-largest contributor to the US-led force there.

Source: Taipei Times January 24, 2026 17:08 UTC