“Then as Iraq quietened down there was this push for ... as the explosive allegations aired at the inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan continue to reverberate.

A former soldier who was left with severe burns following a petrol bomb attack in Iraq is to take on an "epic" 500km (300 ...

Two C8 Rifles and nearly 100 bullets for them went missing last year, according to an FOI filed by Metro (Picture: File image ...

The number of SAS soldiers is to quadruple from 500 to 2,000 over the next five years in a massive escalation of the war on terror. With Britain playing a key role in ...

The MoD gave no further details on the alleged war crimes. A case may relate to one or more incidents, it said. In March, this newspaper reported that, according to Special Air Service sources ...

Nine elite Special Forces troops could be prosecuted over alleged war crimes in Syria ... But earlier this year, it emerged five SAS soldiers were being investigated over the death of a jihadi ...

A few months ago it emerged that five members of the Special Air Service could face court martial after being accused of committing war crimes while ... in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Only the inquiry team and representatives from the Ministry of Defence have been allowed to attend the closed hearings, ...

Now, there are fresh calls for one of the leaders of those commandos - Blair 'Paddy' Mayne - to be awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest British award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.

SAS troops arrived in Afghanistan in 2009, many fresh from the war in Iraq, and took over the mission of hunting Taliban militants from the SBS. Many of the concerns about their methods were ...

Ulster Unionist Party assembly member Doug Beattie, a former soldier and veteran of the wars in Iraq and ... of the war Mr Lewis said Mayne's predecessor as commander of the SAS, David Sterling ...