{"id":19932,"date":"2026-04-09T05:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=19932"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:41:44","slug":"australian-veteran-charged-with-war-crimes-over-killings-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/australian-veteran-charged-with-war-crimes-over-killings-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Veteran charged with war crimes over killings in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Ben Roberts-Smith, a former Australian soldier who served in Afghanistan, has been charged with war crimes over the killing of Afghan civilians during his deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report by The Guardian on Thursday evening, Roberts-Smith faces charges related to five murder incidents and did not apply for bail during a recent court hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors allege that in April 2009, he murdered a civilian in Kakarak village of Uruzgan province, and ordered a subordinate to carry out another killing. He is also accused of involvement in additional civilian killings in 2012, including directly participating in and ordering subordinates to carry out attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If convicted under Australian law, he could face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, described the case as a difficult moment but declined to comment further, citing the ongoing legal process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Ben Roberts-Smith, a former Australian soldier who served in Afghanistan, has been charged with war crimes over the killing of Afghan civilians during his deployment. According to a report by The Guardian on Thursday evening, Roberts-Smith faces charges related to five murder incidents and did not apply for bail during a recent court hearing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19934,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19932\/revisions\/19934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}