US EditionFrance honors fallen soldiers in Afghanistan after Trump’s false claim about NATO troops
France honored 90 soldiers killed in Afghanistan to counter false claims by U.S. President Trump that non-U.S. NATO troops avoided frontline combat, officials said.
- On Monday, French officials held a ceremony in Paris to defend soldiers' memory, following U.S. President Donald Trump's claim on Thursday that non-U.S. NATO troops stayed `a little off the frontlines` in Afghanistan.
- In October 2001, the campaign began as a U.S.-led coalition effort to destroy al-Qaida and its Taliban hosts, with troops from dozens of countries including NATO whose mutual-defense mandate was triggered.
- Ninety French soldiers died in the Afghanistan campaign, and Alice Rufo, minister delegate at the Defense Ministry, said attending was symbolically important for families and veterans' associations' statements showed outrage and sadness.
- After the remarks, Trump appeared to backpedal and heaped praise on the British soldiers who fought in Afghanistan, while critics noted he had no words for other troops and called for trans-Atlantic solidarity invoking the brotherhood of arms between Americans, Britons, and French soldiers.
- The ceremony, hastily organized over the weekend, aimed to defend fallen soldiers' memory as Alice Rufo said `we do not accept that their memory be insulted.
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France honors soldiers who died in Afghanistan after Trump's false claim about NATO troops
A senior French government official said Monday the memory of the French soldiers who died in Afghanistan should not be tarnished following U.S. President Donald Trump's false assertion that troops from non-U.S. NATO countries avoided the front line during that war.
France Honors Fallen Soldiers in Afghanistan after Trump's False Claim ...
France honours fallen soldiers in Afghanistan after Trump’s false claim about NATO troops
A senior French government official said Monday the memory of the French soldiers who died in Afghanistan should not be tarnished following U.S. President Donald Trump’s false assertion that troops from non-U.S. NATO countries avoided the front line during that war.
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