Senior officer issues extraordinary plea to the UK special forces community to ‘decide what you stand for’
The head of the UK’s special forces (UKSF) knew soldiers had probably committed war crimes in Afghanistan but failed to act and conducted a “fake exercise” to cover it up, according to damning new testimony.
One of the most senior special forces officers in the British Army told the Afghan war crimes inquiry that he first raised concerns that Afghans were being killed unlawfully and that stories were being invented to disguise the deaths in...