The Latest Breaking News from SAS

SAS soldier could 'not ignore' allegations

An SAS soldier says he is not proud of being a whistleblower but felt the allegations against Ben Roberts-Smith were so serious he could not walk away.

AAP · Mar 16, 2022

Ben Roberts-Smith accused of ‘intimidating witnesses’ to war crimes inquiry, court hears

Court also hears evidence from serving SAS veteran that Victoria Cross recipient wanted to ‘choke a man to death with my bare hands’ in Afghanistan

The Guardian - AU · Mar 16, 2022

Roberts-Smith's 'threat to choke to death'

Ben Roberts-Smith threatened to choke a man to death with his bare hands in Afghanistan and also assaulted an unarmed frightened prisoner, an SAS soldier says.

AAP · Mar 16, 2022

Former SAS soldier tells court he witnessed Ben Roberts-Smith shoot man in back outside Taliban compound

A former elite soldier codenamed Person 24 says he saw the Victoria Cross recipient carry a man out of a compound in Afghanistan before shooting him.

ABC News · Mar 14, 2022

Roberts-Smith 'opened fire' on prisoner

A former SAS soldier has told the Federal Court that he watched Ben Roberts-Smith drop an Afghan male on the ground before executing him with a machine gun.

AAP · Mar 14, 2022

SAS 'rumour' mill, bullying claims and doubts over Victoria Cross dominate Ben Roberts-Smith trial

It's difficult to imagine two environments more different than a club of country wives and a military unit of elite soldiers, but evidence at the Ben Roberts-Smith trial this week says otherwise.

ABC News · Mar 11, 2022

Tunnel vision: why the Ben Roberts-Smith trial could turn on a tiny secret crawlspace in an Afghan village

For all the complexity of this defamation case, a simple point will be a crucial one: were there any people in the tunnel at Whiskey 108?

The Guardian - AU · Mar 11, 2022

Ben Roberts-Smith was a 'bully' and VC was given in error, former SAS patrol commander tells court

A more thorough investigation process should have preceded the awarding of the prestigious Victoria Cross to Ben Roberts-Smith, a former army commander tells the NSW Federal Court

ABC News · Mar 11, 2022

SAS witness 'grabbed' tunnel prisoner

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has been contradicted by another former SAS soldier who says he helped an elderly Afghan prisoner out from a secret tunnel.

AAP · Mar 9, 2022

Afghan with prosthetic leg ‘marched off’ by Ben Roberts-Smith before being found dead, court hears

SAS soldier tells defamation trial he heard a burst of gunfire and later walked past dead body lying outside Whiskey 108 compound

The Guardian - AU · Mar 9, 2022