Military 'committed war crimes in Afghanistan'

A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and despite widespread knowledge in the chain of command nothing was done.

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Britain’s defence ministry (MoD) ordered the inquiry after a BBC TV documentary reported that soldiers from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) had killed 54 people during the war in Afghanistan more than a decade ago in suspicious circumstances.

The investigation is examining a number of nighttime raids by British forces from mid-2010 to mid-2013 when they were part of a US-led coalition fighting the Taliban and other militants.