Skip to main content
Donate to the 95 years appeal
Parliament needs power to scrutinise special forces, committee warns

MORE scrutiny over British special forces and drones should be given to MPs, a parliamentary committee is warning today.

The call comes days after the Morning Star revealed how SAS Sergeant Matt Tonroe, the only British soldier to die fighting Isis in Syria, was killed by friendly fire.

MPs currently have no oversight of special forces raids and the government refused to answer a question in Parliament about Sgt Tonroe’s death.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
SMILING ASSASSINS: Contra rebels in Nicaragua
Extract / 21 January 2020
21 January 2020
Investigative journalist PHIL MILLER'S new book exposes the activities of Keenie Meenie Services, a powerful and secretive mercenary company which, from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua, has been involved in war crimes around the world.
Captain Dean Sprouting
Britain / 10 October 2019
10 October 2019
US soldiers' 'entirely improper' driving of forklift truck crushed Captain Dean Sprouting
A US airman secures a fuel line on the flightline at Royal A
Britain / 26 September 2019
26 September 2019
Similar stories
ILLEGAL FROM THE START: British commandos in the south east region of Afghanistan, May 2002
Features / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025

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 
 

Features / 27 November 2024
27 November 2024
CHRIS WHITEHOUSE shines a light on the far from neutral tactics used to lobby for assisted suicide and create momentum for its legalisation in Britain