NATO, Afghanistan and Donald Trump
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Talks between U.S. and Afghan officials for prisoner releases are stuck. The U.S. wants its citizens freed from Afghanistan. Afghanistan wants its detainee at Guantánamo Bay released. This deadlock impacts diplomatic engagement.
The US president made the comments in an interview with Fox News, in which he reiterated his suggestion that Nato would not support America if asked.
President Trump said that NATO soldiers stayed “a little off the front lines” during the conflict. In Britain, which lost 457 soldiers in the war, the response was swift.
From left: First Lady Laura Bush, U.S. President George W. Bush, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald E. Neumann, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul ...
WASHINGTON — The images from Kabul, Afghanistan have been stunning over the last 72 hours. From Afghans clinging to airplanes on tarmacs to women being forced to adapt to life under Taliban rule, the events have impacted the entire global community.
Prince Harry is sharing his own experience having served in Afghanistan with the British Army. The Duke of Sussex spoke out after Donald Trump downplayed the involvement of NATO allies in the war in Afghanistan following 9/11.