In September 2005, British special-operations forces in Basra faced a problem. Two of their own had been captured during an undercover operation, and their lives were in peril. In addition to hostile ...
March 19, 2021: Britain is implementing a lot of their Future Commando Force modernization measures in 2021. These include new combat equipment, weapons, organizational concepts and tactics. One ...
The view from Baghdad, three days after D-Day, is dire. A British division, backed by 2,000 U.S. Marines, controls Basra in the south, Iraq’s second-largest city, as well as the oil fields around it.
On April 30, 1980, Iranian terrorists stormed Iran's Embassy in London and took two dozen hostages. After six tense days, the British SAS freed hostages with a daring raid captured on live television.
A member of the British Army's elite Special Air Service who died alongside a U.S. special operator during a counter-ISIS operation in Syria last year was killed by "the accidental detonation of ...
Today even medium-sized police forces have special units that can deal in hostage rescue operations, but 40 years ago this was anything but the norm. It all changed on April 30, 1980, when the Iranian ...
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British SAS, an elite commando unit or barbarians? Explosive allegations expose “war crimes” in Afghanistan
Special forces of any country are considered the sword arm of its defence forces. They are sent to carry out the most dangerous military operations, often behind enemy lines, and their stories are the ...
On the night of June 5, 1944, as tens of thousands of Allied troops prepared to storm the beaches of Normandy, a handful of British Special Air Service commandos were parachuting into Nazi-occupied ...
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