The mother of a Scottish soldier killed in Afghanistan has described Donald Trump's claim that allies stayed away from the front line as "soul-destroying". Sean Binnie was a 22-year-old acting sergeant when he was killed while on patrol with the Black Watch in Helmand Province in May 2009.

Donald Trump has angered veterans and families of those who died in Afghanistan after claiming that allies stayed away from the front line in the conflict. Around 1,061 non-American Nato troops died in the conflict that began in 2001,

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

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The US President dismissed the sacrifice of more than 400 Brits who served and died in Afghanistan - claiming they “stayed a little back, off the front line"

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Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, has confronted Donald Trump by reminding him that Nato countries lost one soldier for every two Americans killed in Afghanistan.