According to service officials, USASOC is tasked to, "man, train, equip, educate, organise, sustain and support forces to conduct special warfare and surgical strikes across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of joint force commanders and interagency partners,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials say that special operations forces launched a rescue mission to retrieve two men kidnapped by insurgents in Afghanistan last month. The hostages were not there when the rescue team arrived.
US military officials say that in the past Al-Shabaab has exploited local grievances among the many clans that make-up Somalia as a means of gaining power so the US has made a concerted effort to ensure that the forces comprising Danab are representative of the areas where they operate helpi...
SpecialOperationsForces(SOF)playasignificantroleinU.S.militaryoperations,andtheAdministrationhasgivenU.S.SOFgreaterresponsibilityforplanningandconductingworldwidecounterterrorismoperations.U.S.SpecialOperationsCommand(USSOCOM)hasabout63,000activeduty,NationalGuard,andreservepersonnelfromallfourservicesandDepartmentofDefense...
Sudan’s fighting broke out April 15 between two commanders who just 18 months earlier jointly orchestrated a military coup to derail the nation’s transition to democracy. The ongoing power struggle now between the armed forces chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the head of the ...
Sudan’s fighting broke out April 15 between two commanders who just 18 months earlier jointly orchestrated a military coup to derail the nation’s transition to democracy. The ongoing power struggle now between the armed forces chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the head of the ...
 The Russians came across a 25 year old Albanian on the side of the road who was dirty and wearing a green military web belt, which seemed especially odd as the patrol was really in the middle of nowhere at this point. The Russians took him back to their base with the...
Sudan’s fighting broke out April 15 between two commanders who just 18 months earlier jointly orchestrated a military coup to derail the nation’s transition to democracy. The ongoing power struggle now between the armed forces chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the head of the...
A 5.56mm light machine gun in wide use throughout the US military with variants developed for special ops forces. info :M249 SAW Mk 46 Machine Gun A special ops variant of the M249 SAW info :Mk 46 Machine Gun Mk 48 Machine Gun
On the north flank of the greater ISIS war, the U.S. military official notably also cited the pressure on ISIS coming from President Bashar al-Assad’s forces as a factor in the group’s decline. In the north, Syrian rebels are closer to receiving U.S.-led training. A...