The US president’s claim that allied soldiers stayed “off the front lines” in Afghanistan was “disrespectful,” Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said

US President Donald Trump must apologize for claiming that Washington’s NATO allies avoided frontline fighting in Afghanistan, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said.

In an interview with Fox News in Davos, Switzerland, last week, Trump stated that the US “never needed” any help and that America’s NATO allies had “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines” during the US-led war in Afghanistan.

Responding in comments to Germany’s ARD public broadcaster on Sunday, Pistorius…

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