{"id":22464,"date":"2026-09-23T07:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/97-million-new-files-delay-afghanistan-civilian-killing-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:14:43","slug":"97-million-new-files-delay-afghanistan-civilian-killing-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/97-million-new-files-delay-afghanistan-civilian-killing-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of 97 Million New Files Delays Inquiry Into Civilian Killings in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US media have reported that the UK Ministry of Defence has identified 97 million new documents, some of which may be linked to an investigation into allegations that British special forces killed civilians in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, the head of the investigation team said the late discovery of these documents could delay the review process even further. He explained that assessing and examining such a large volume of material would prolong the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began in 2023 after a report was published on the killing of 54 people under suspicious circumstances during the Afghanistan war by British special forces.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations relate to operations carried out by British special forces in Afghanistan, a country that over two decades of foreign military presence has repeatedly seen reports of civilian casualties and controversial military operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery of 97 million new UK defence files delays an inquiry into alleged civilian killings by British special forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}