U.S. Army Special Forces and Afghan commandos have captured a major ISIS stronghold in Afghanistan, defense officials told Stars and Stripes on Saturday, effectively ...

ON THE GROUND Special operations forces have a famously tight bond. As the Green Berets stepped off the SOAR's highly modified MH-47 Chinooks into Afghanistan, they stepped back in time ...

Green Berets from 5th Special Forces Group were among the first to deploy to Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Some of them rode into battle on horseback alongside fighters from the ...

Jose J. Gonzalez, 35, were killed on Aug. 21, during combat operations in Faryab Province in northern Afghanistan. Both were Green Berets assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne ...

The Army’s top special operations officer has cleared two Green Berets of wrongdoing in the worst case of “friendly fire” fatalities in the long Afghanistan war. The deaths of five U.S ...

Alongside the CIA, they were the first Americans on the ground in Afghanistan only ... But SF doesn't take just anybody. Green Berets assigned to the Special Forces Advanced Skills Company Sniper ...

Two Special Forces soldiers killed Wednesday in Afghanistan during combat operations have been posthumously promoted, officials announced Thursday. Master Sgts. Luis F. Deleon-Figueroa, 31, and ...

Just days after the terrorists struck, Green Berets from the Fort Campbell-based 5th Group were in Afghanistan. In more than 13 years since, the Special Forces presence in the country has been a ...

Special Forces officers blame the problems on a lack of a coherent strategy for using the Green Berets in Afghanistan. Others say some Special Forces teams operate under NATO commanders from other ...

A former Green Beret involved in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan was nominated as the Pentagon special operations ...

In fact, the sun hadn't even set on the smoldering pile of ruins that once was the World Trade Center, when the U.S., the Central Intelligence Agency, the military and U.S. Army Special Operations ...

Jose J. Gonzalez, 35, were killed on Aug. 21, during combat operations in Faryab Province in northern Afghanistan. Both were Green Berets assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne ...