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Latest news on the UK's Special Forces, which is made up of several elite military units with distinct areas of expertise, including the Special Air Service (SAS).
Top general locked away evidence of SAS executions - BBC
Nov 16, 2023 · Allegations of extrajudicial killings by British special forces in Afghanistan are currently the subject of a judge-led public inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice, following reporting by the...
Further evidence of UK special forces war crimes in Afghanistan, …
Jan 17, 2025 · According to the BBC, a former senior UK Special Forces officer (codenamed N2107)—one of several who registered concerns in 2011 that the SAS appeared to be carrying out executions and covering ...
BBC report on unlawful SAS killings 'broadly accurate', MoD …
Sep 23, 2024 · Ministry of Defence officials concluded privately in a 2019 letter that allegations to be aired in a BBC Panorama on alleged SAS war crimes were “broadly accurate”.
Afghanistan: UK special forces 'killed 9 people in their beds' - BBC
Oct 9, 2023 · UK special forces killed nine people "in their beds" during an Afghanistan night raid, an independent inquiry has heard. Family members say the victims were unarmed civilians. The SAS had...
Minister says Afghan commandos described 'horrific' SAS war …
Feb 21, 2024 · Veterans minister Johnny Mercer has told a public inquiry he heard "horrific" accounts from former members of Afghan special forces of the SAS killing unarmed detainees and children.
SAS public inquiry obtains deleted computer evidence - BBC News
Jul 2, 2024 · The public inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan has obtained a previously deleted cache of data that could hold crucial evidence, the BBC can reveal. The files were permanently...
Special Forces at centre of Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, MoD
Jul 5, 2023 · The Ministry of Defence has confirmed for the first time that UK Special Forces are at the centre of a war crimes inquiry. The MoD on Wednesday abandoned an effort to restrict any mention of...
Secretive world of UK Special Forces and its selection process …
Jan 13, 2025 · The news comes as the SAS, whose official insignia has the famous Who Dares Wins motto, is being featured on the BBC1 series SAS Rogue Heroes, which reveals the exploits of the regiment in the Second World War. But it also comes amid claims during the Afghanistan Inquiry, that members of special forces had a "golden pass to get away with murder".
Special forces soldiers in Afghanistan had ‘golden pass to get …
Jan 8, 2025 · Special forces soldiers in Afghanistan had a “golden pass allowing them to get away with murder”, a public inquiry into alleged war crimes has been told. Evidence from seven UK special forces witnesses to the Afghanistan Inquiry was published on Wednesday as part of a release of material summarising the content of secret hearings.