Special Operations 2015

Many of the details of Abu Kamal Raid remain controversial and unconfirmed, but the bare outlines are these. On the...

With the Civil War about to erupt in April 1861, Thaddeus S.C. Lowe decided to fly his hot air balloon...

In April 2004, an Iraqi group kidnapped four Italian workers off the streets of Baghdad. One man, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, was...

In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Americans of every political persuasion came together to...

The daring operation recounted in the story of the Trojan Horse is easily the earliest, most successful, and most famous special...

The situation had become perilous. The pirates had just turned down a ransom of $1.5 million. One of the two...

Following the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the Allies’ advance through France depended heavily on help from a...

Special forces in the town of Gardez began gathering intelligence on the remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in the...

On Nov. 4, 2004, a group of 20 Iraqi gunmen stormed a compound in Baghdad and took six hostages, including...

Soon after American-led coalition forces entered Iraq in March 2003, intelligence efforts focused on the chemical weapons (or other so-called...