Taliban accuses Prince Harry of war crimes after he says he killed 25 people in Afghanistan

In his upcoming memoir, Spare, the Duke of Sussex reveals that he did not think of the insurgents he killed "as people" but instead 'chess pieces' he had taken off the board.

He said it was "not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me."

The royal said he saw insurgents as “baddies eliminated before they could kill goodies”, adding it is not possible to kill someone “if you see them as a person”, but that Army had “trained me to ‘other’ them and they had trained me well.” On his second tour of Afghanistan, he was able to say  “with exactness how many enemy combatants" he had killed thanks to the technology. Now, a senior Taliban leader has responded on social media to Harry's words, accusing him of "war crimes." Anas Haqqani tweeted: "Mr. Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return.