The UK newspaper the Guardian reported that the investigation into war crimes committed by British forces in Afghanistan may be delayed until 2025.

According to the report, a lawyer involved in the investigation into the killing of innocent Afghans by UK elite forces has criticized the Ministry of Defence for delaying supplying evidence.

“The correspondence highlights that even if the MoD hires extra legal assistants and buys specialist software, it would take until October or November to supply documents, meaning the hearings into the suspicious killings of 80 Afghans would be delayed until March 2025,” the report reads. 

Meanwhile, the head of the Islamic Emirate's Qatar-based Political Office said that foreign forces have killed a large number of innocent Afghans over the past twenty years.

Suhail Shaheen called on impartial institutions to find and severely punish the perpetrators of war crimes in Afghanistan.

“Foreign forces have killed many innocent Afghans, including children and women, with bombings in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, and we hope that neutral international organizations will investigate these war crimes in Afghanistan and find those responsible,” he added. 

Relatives of victims in Helmand said that UK forces in the province have committed war crimes against their family members.

They demand from the UK not only compensation but also justice and the prosecution of those responsible for its forces' war crimes in Helmand.

“In Helmand, they were bombing innocent people, and it was such a horror that I had never seen anything like it in my life,” said Gul Mohammad, a resident of Helmand.

“We ask the International Court to punish the foreign forces that have committed war crimes in Afghanistan and killed innocent Afghans, and to compensate the Afghans,” said Sayed Mohammad, another resident of Helmand.

According to The Guardian, UK Special Air Service forces are accused of killing 80 innocent Afghans in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013.