In Iraq, that role falls largely to the 5th Special Forces Group, one of five groups that since Sept. 11 have frequently been joined by members of two reserve Special Forces units, said John ...

Hof, who is now at the Atlantic Council think-tank, said the US special forces were filling a gap in capable ground forces to fight the IS group, which won control of Iraq’s Anbar provincial ...

Army Special Operations Command, headquartered at Fort Bragg, N.C., refused to specify exactly how many soldiers had deployed from Fort Carson. But The Gazette of Colorado Springs, citing unnamed ...

Iraq — Iraqi special forces charged into the Mosul battle Thursday with a pre-dawn advance on a nearby town held by the Islamic State group, a key part of a multi-pronged assault on eastern ...

The extremist group still controls territory in the country's north and west, including Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. The last battalion from Iraq's Special Forces Service arrived at dawn ...

BAGHDAD – Iraq's special forces, which barreled into a town east ... FROM "DIRTY" TO "GOLDEN" When the Islamic State group swept across northern and central Iraq in 2014, Iraq's security forces ...

The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne ... warfare and direct action missions conducted throughout Iraq, the group has trained Iraqi military and security forces to enable them to carry on ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will soon deploy 200 special forces troops in Iraq to advise and assist ... the U.S. to battle the Islamic State group. At the same time, Australia also ...

These men were part of the US Army’s 5th Special Forces Group. They were en route to K2 ... Several were later deployed to Iraq and died in that conflict. When viewed through the lens of ...

Third Special Forces Group (Airborne) traces its lineage back ... including the armed forces of Mali, Iraq, Ethiopia, the Congo, and Jordan. Additionally, 3rd SFG participated in training ...