It was a remarkable moment: a British war hero from humble origins stood before a rapturous crowd and welcomed to the stage the former, and possibly next, president of the United States of America.

On May 5, 1980, the world watched as Britain's elite SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London. In just 17 minutes, they ...

The British Special Air Service, known universally as the SAS, is one of the top Special Forces units in the world.

March 6 (UPI) --Five serving British special forces soldiers are under arrest on suspicion of murder by military authorities in connection with the killing of a suspected member of Islamic Jihad in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Operation Barras was a key moment in recent British Army history and now a memorial has been unveiled to honour ...

Earlier this month, the ongoing “Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan”, which is investigating war crimes committed by UK special forces during the US-led occupation of the country, released ...

On the night of June 5, 1944, as tens of thousands of Allied troops prepared to storm the beaches of Normandy, a handful of British Special Air Service commandos were parachuting into Nazi-occupied ...

The United Kingdom boasts one of the top special forces military units in the world – the British Special Air Service (SAS) which had a vital role to play in the war in Iraq. An American general, ...

Vladimir Putin’s paranoid Russian counter-intelligence chief Alexander Bortnikov has revealed how he fears real life James Bonds and SAS sabotage squads. The 73-year-old FSB spy-catcher boss sees the ...