In March 1941, long before the famous Raid on Alexandria, Italian special forces launched their first covert strike against the Royal Navy. Using explosive motorboats under cover of darkness, they ...

The Pentagon's special operations arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro rates as a legend-making commando snatch raid.

Helicopter pilot who led Caracas mission was hit three times, while about 40 Venezuelans and 32 Cubans were killed ...

Five other soldiers who participated in Operation Absolute Resolve "suffered injuries but have already returned to duty," a ...

US special forces have seized a rogue Russia-linked oil tanker with the help of the British military in a commando-style raid in the Atlantic. The rusting Marinera tanker, accused of breaching the ...

Following the Oct. 5 twin U.S. commando raids in Africa, targeting suspected terrorist leaders, new information is emerging about the targets themselves, why the U.S. military sought to capture them ...

Pakistan's army broke its silence Thursday over the U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, acknowledging its own "shortcomings" in efforts to find the al-Qaida leader but threatening to ...

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. commandos mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria overnight, killing a senior Islamic State commander in a firefight, capturing his wife and rescuing a Yazidi woman held as a slave, ...