Special Operations Forces

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday that French special operations forces arrived in Syria over the past two weeks to help boost US-led efforts ... Even after IS -- which still control two pockets of territory along the middle Euphrates River Valley -- are defeated, the US military wants to maintain a ...

According to officials, the investigation concludes the Army Special Forces team didn't get required senior command approval for their risky mission to capture a high-level Islamic State militant. U.S. special operations forces have been advising and working with local troops on the continent, including in ...

Command of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) officially changed hands at a ceremony Wednesday in Ottawa. The new Commander of CANSOFCOM, Major-General Peter Dawe, assumed command from Major-General Mike Rouleau at a ceremony at Cartier Square Drill ...

American troops landed in the ground war in Syria in late 2015 with a small contingent of Special Operations forces, hoping to forge an alliance with local militias and ... And in June, a United States military jet shot down a Syrian warplane that was trying to bomb American-backed fighters on the ground.

Through simulated battlefields, Brunson said the exercise tests soldiers' ability to respond to tactical, operational and strategic problems. ... If deployed, 1st Special Forces Command would oversee special operations forces not only from the Army – Special Forces, Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations, ...

Many Western military commanders consider Special Operations Forces (SOF) to be the perfect tool for almost any job, but the current deployment ... Not only the combat footage from the recent Niger ambush where four U.S. Special Forces soldiers were killed, but other sources as well, indicate that not ...

Editor's note: The names of special operations forces members have been withheld due to security concerns. ... Airmen assigned to the 352nd Special Operations Wing and Special Forces soldiers assigned to 10th Special Forces Group conducted a winter training course here from February to March 2018.

Kyrgyzstan had been one of the US's top beneficiaries of special forces training in Central Asia, but those trainings abruptly stopped after the Manas closure. Nevertheless, according to recently released State Department documents that detail US military training activities over the last two years, the US ...

A senior Nigerien military commander told me that the American military has an expansionist agenda in the country and constantly pushes for more missions on the ground. According to a Nigerien soldier who participated in the operation on October 4, the American soldiers involved in Tongo Tongo had ...

But the technology's penetration of the military over the years has been uneven. It was originally more prominent among special operations forces, but has since expanded to conventional troops as the cameras became more widespread and more commanders became convinced of their value.

Earlier in March 2018, Special Operations Command, Europe (SOCEUR), which oversees American special operations forces activities in and around the continent, posted a series of images from an exercise in Germany nicknamed Allied Spirit VIII. They show Special Forces soldiers from the U.S. Army ...

Belgian television reported the operator was 27-year-old Dimitri “Dimi” Trainis who had only recently joined the elite Belgian Special Forces Group. ... According to the post, Trainis had recently completed his Special Operations Forces Advanced First Responder course and was at Yuma completing tactical ...

He added that the report into the deaths of members of an Army Special Forces team, which first went to meet local leaders and was then redirected to assist in the ... The deaths of the four U.S. soldiers — Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright ...

The finding will likely increase scrutiny on U.S. military activity in Africa, particularly the role of special operations forces who've been advising and working with local troops on the continent for years. Four U.S. soldiers and four Nigerien troops were killed Oct. 4 about 120 miles (200 kilometers) north of ...

The 815th AS “Flying Jennies” provided airlift support for the special operations joint training event at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Feb. 26-March 2. The exercise involved units from all U.S. military branches, U.S. Special Operations Command and North Atlantic Treaty Organization partner forces. (U.S. Air Force ...

The fallen soldiers were reportedly part of a 12-member Army Special Forces unit that was accompanying about 30 Nigerian troops when they were ... pictures had been taken by one of the soldiers caught in the ambush and ISIS captured the images after the soldier was killed, according to Military Times.

Private intelligence contracts between the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) — the most elite branch of the military — and ... is often associated with on-the-ground targeting and drone surveillance during operations, something US special forces are focusing on for its soldiers.

A 12-man Special Forces A-Team (Green Berets) cannot stop an enemy tank formation alone. The best weapon for that is one of our own tank units. We can “make do” with special operations forces in extreme situations if supported by air power (think the recently released movie “12 Strong”), but that should ...

Special operations forces numbers are higher than they have ever been, but leaders in that community want Congress to approve their highest budget ... The special operations forces, which include Army Special Forces and Rangers, Navy SEALs, Marine Raiders and Air Force Special Tactics Operators ...

Today, the bistro is overrun with the United States Military, because this conference is not for golf balls or gaming or the International Council of Shopping Centers. Today is the second day of the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC), where U.S. Special Forces meet the companies that ...

U.S. Special Operations forces, which include Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Army Delta Force, and others, use the cameras as they conduct ... The U.S. military has yet to release a full accounting of what happened that day after a dozen U.S. soldiers and 30 Nigerien troops embarked Oct. 3 on a ...

An unspecified number of Lithuanian troops from Special Operations Forces will join the 21 Lithuanian soldiers currently serving in Afghanistan with NATO in April, the ministry noted. "Lithuania receives strong support from our allies, therefore we have to contribute according to our means to fight against ...

Given the scope of a war, Milley said that "the brutality of this will be beyond the experience of any living soldier," officials familiar with the TTX said in the ... According to The Times, military leaders looked at various factors, including how many Special Operations forces could deploy to target nuclear sites in ...

The Sky Wolf Commandos of the Chinese Army's Special Operations Forces from the Western Theater Command, have been equipped with the QTS-11 system in their ... Military experts say the QTS-11 system is similar to the one of the US army as it contains soldier combat system, including detection and ...

A 12-man Special Forces A-Team (Green Berets) cannot stop an enemy tank formation alone. The best weapon for that is one of our own tank units. We can “make do” with special operations forces in extreme situations if supported by air power (think the recently released movie “12 Strong”), but that should ...

Incorporating lessons from Western special operations forces, the Russian military has established its own equivalent of the U.S. Army's elite 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta—better known as Delta Force. This new force is called Special Operations Command, known by its Russian ...

Canada's special operations forces are considered to be among the world's elite, regularly compared with American SEALs, Delta Force, and British ... CANSOFCOM soldiers did multiple tours fighting ISIS in Iraq over the last three years, which is viewed as one of the most secretive military campaigns in ...