Strong, who earned his Green Beret in 2002 and has served with Special Forces units on numerous deployments in Iraq and ...

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A precision strike by Turkish intelligence has eliminated a top member of the PKK terrorist group’s so-called special forces ...

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 ...

which countered that its troops had fought heroically after being double crossed by Iraqi spies who had posed as interpreters. The row became so intense that the then-Director of Special Forces ...

though Iraqi forces might have to operate with less direct assistance from U.S. special operations forces and advisers. It is ...

Partnered military raids in Iraq usually involve special operations forces though the CENTCOM statement did not specify what ...

The U.S. and Iraq announced an agreement last year to wind down the military mission in Iraq of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group by September 2025, with U.S. forces ...