SAS Massacred Young Men in Afghanistan During Night Raids, Inquiry Told

An inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in London has been told SAS soldiers killed a number of innocent young men during tours of duty in Afghanistan.

British soldiers are silhouetted against the sky as they provide security for a meeting with the Afghan National Police at the fortress Qala-e-Bost in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, on May 17, 2006. John D. McHugh/AFP via Getty Images

An independent inquiry has been told soldiers from Britain’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) carried out “massacres” of young men during night raids in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013.

The inquiry, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and chaired by Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, heard the SAS allegedly had a policy of executing men of “fighting age” in Afghanistan during the Taliban insurgency.