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After losing that case, SAS launched a series of appeals, including demands for a re-hearing, which was denied.

Afghan commandos, known as the Triples, supported the SAS and SBS for years in Afghanistan and were in danger of reprisal after the Taliban seized back the country in 2021.

Earlier this week a BBC Panorama investigation said Gen Jenkins had overseen the rejection of hundreds of UK resettlement applications from Afghan commandos who had served alongside the SAS.

Panorama has now heard eyewitness testimony from veterans who served in UK Special Forces detailing alleged war crimes stretching over more than a decade and involving the SBS as well as the SAS.

Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children.