Bereaved families of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan said yesterday that the conflict had been for nothing.
As British troops prepare to withdraw from the war-torn country later this year, the relatives of some of those who died have said that any improvements seen in the country would soon disappear.
More than 400 British troops have been killed in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion



