That challenge was clearly exposed in a recent Vice News documentary produced by two journalists who embedded with Iraq's elite counterterrorism force - the Golden Division Special Forces unit ...

MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces drove back Islamic State militants in the Mosul University campus on Saturday, while elite police units took over large areas along the east ...

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The Department of Defense announced today that US Special Forces and Kurdish forces launched an air assault against an Islamic State-run prison near Hawijah in central Iraq. One US soldier was killed ...

But the battle for Mosul continues. Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces have entered the city, and the battle has intensified with ISIS militants staging new attacks as they cling to ...

But the key documents contain details on how certain elite units of the Iraqi army - parts of the Republican Guard and the Special Republicans - have been supplied with equipment, which will protect ...

Iraqi security forces in training They were part of a group of eight interpreters who worked with the British special forces that had come to Iraq under the US-led international coalition against ...

Russian special forces, and the Alpha Group in particular ... Asked about the importance of the SAS's role in the fighting that followed the Iraq war, US Gen. Stanley McChrystal responded ...

Most people who go to selection are either in the Ranger Regiment or Ranger-Qualified or in Army Special Forces. Many of these operators have numerous back-to-back deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

He deployed to Iraq in 2002. He passed Special Forces qualification and joined 10th SFG in 2005. He deployed to Iraq as a Green Beret in 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010. He later deployed to ...

Indeed, American forces in Iraq and Syria are thin, fairly spread out, and exposed. “As the conflict between Israel and Iran ...