The Latest Breaking News from Special Forces

Exclusive: oversight report also backs new respite policy designed to allow members to recuperate between deployments

Gunfire was heard in at least two towns in Ethiopia's Amhara region on Sunday as thousands protested against a federal government order to integrate regional special forces into the police or national army, residents said.

TAMPA, Fla. — Jeremy Brown, the retired U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant ensnared in a federal investigation of the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, received a sentence of seven years in federal prison Friday for having two illegal guns, a set of hand grenades and…

The Ethiopian government said on Thursday it intends to integrate all regional special forces either into the national army, or the federal or regional police, a move likely to be perceived as an attempt to diminish the autonomy of individual regions.

US soldiers joined the Somali army, preparing for the second phase of the war against the extremist Somali al-Shabaab Movement. An official in the Somali government confirmed, on condition of anonymity, to Asharq Al-Awsat that members of the US Special Forces had arrived in the Mahas area, about 300 km…

A former Australian special forces soldier charged with a war crime related to his deployment in Afghanistan is granted bail, after a Sydney magistrate accepted he was in a potentially dangerous position in custody.

An independent team will investigate whether UK forces carried out extrajudicial killings of Afghan civilians.

The Afghanistan inquiry officially launched on Wednesday, but many of the hearings are set to be held in private.

The chair of a public inquiry examining "extremely serious" allegations that British armed forces carried out dozens of extra-judicial killings in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that any soldiers who had broken the law should face investigation.

Police have arrested the first Australian veteran for an alleged murder in Afghanistan three years after a war crime investigation found that 19 Australian special forces soldiers could face charges for illegal conduct during the conflict

The 41-year-old man, who was deployed in Afghanistan, is accused of having killed a civilian. A four-year investigation revealed that Australian special forces killed 39 unarmed civilians and prisoners in the country.