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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Uk launches probe into claims its troops killed afghan civilians - What They Never Told You

SAS Andrew Murrison Ben Wallace Afghanistan Special Forces
The newly launched statutory inquiry will probe the alleged wrongdoing spanning a period from mid-2010 to mid-2013 [File: Omar Sobhani/Reuters]

The United Kingdom has launched an independent inquiry into allegations of unlawful killings by its soldiers in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, the country’s defence ministry announced on Thursday.

The statutory inquiry headed by senior judge Charles Haddon-Cave will start early next year. It will probe the alleged wrongdoing by commandos in the elite Special Air Service (SAS) corps spanning a period from mid-2010 to mid-2013.

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