Over the past decade, the United States' military and the country's national security strategy have come to rely on special operations to an unprecedented degree. As identifying and neutralizing ...

(THE WASHINGTON POST) - United States Special Operations forces are providing direct, on-the-ground support for the first time to fighters battling ISIS in Libya, US and Libyan officials said ...

The Pentagon has set up the Center for Special Operations Analysis, which will be tasked to analyze information in the interests of the Special Operations Forces, including taking into account the ...

United States special operations forces in northeastern Syria have been quietly visiting local villages to help provide medical care to communities which have seen little health care in the wake ...

In the 75 years since the creation of the United States’ first special operations forces, the achievements of those forces have built up popular confidence in their capabilities to such an extent that ...

A January 2020 comprehensive review found that “a [United States Special Operations Command] culture overly focused on force employment and mission accomplishment creates the contexts or ...

Special operations by their very nature place small teams in remote, austere locations without the logistics structure that normally supports conventional forces--often for protracted periods of time.

The U.S. Army Special Operations Command will double in size by 2017, compared to what it was before the war on terror, said its commander.

The United States currently has about 3,550 service members in Iraq, with about 2,750 of those aiding Iraqi security forces as trainers, advisers or support staff, according to U.S. Central ...

Seth Jones, Senior Vice President; Harold Brown Chair; and Director, International Security testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations, on the ...

United States special operations forces in northeastern Syria have been quietly visiting local villages to help provide medical care to communities which have seen little health care in the wake ...