# SAS Commanding Officer hounded by military police following legitimate killing of an ISIS terrorist

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/sas-commanding-officer-hounded-by-military-police-following-legitimate-killing-of-an-isis-terrorist/
- Published: 2026-10-23T17:53:44+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T18:15:23+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16232755/SAS-Commanding-Officer-hounded-military-police-following-legitimate-killing-ISIS-terrorist.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- SAS officers were investigated over a 2022 killing in Syria.
- The three-year probe ended with the officers and soldiers cleared.
- The case reportedly harmed careers and regiment morale.

## Summary

A Special Air Service commanding officer and two senior colleagues were investigated after approving a report that an SAS team had legitimately killed an ISIS fighter in Syria in 2022. The case matters because the investigation, which lasted three years, reportedly damaged careers and morale within the regiment, amid wider scrutiny of UK special forces.

The five-person team shot an ISIS commander who had threatened attacks in a propaganda video; investigators questioned whether they should have tried to arrest him and interviewed the officers under caution over alleged concealment of murder. The article says General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, then Director Special Forces, overruled the SAS commander, prompting the probe, codenamed Operation Tanglement 2. The officers and soldiers were cleared last year; Jenkins is now First Sea Lord.

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