A U.S. special forces commando was killed in Iraq during a joint U.S.-Kurdish raid that freed about 70 hostages from an Islamic State prison, the Pentagon announced Thursday. He was the first American ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq has identified the commando killed in a raid against the Islamic State group in northern Iraq as Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler. Army Col.

WASHINGTON/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - One member of a U.S. special operations force waskilled during an overnight mission to rescue hostages held by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, the first ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The commando force that President Barack Obama is dispatching to Iraq to conduct clandestine raids against the Islamic State group does not fit neatly into a picture of the U.S.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish special forces have been involved in the ground campaign in Iraq as part of their mission to help the U.S.-led invasion force, Prime Minister Leszek Miller said Monday.

The Commando Select armoured vehicles handed over to the CTS. (Iraqi Ministry of Defence) Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) has received 20 vehicles from the US-led coalition, a spokesperson for ...

A young American commando was killed when U.S. special operations forces conducted an operation to free dozens of hostages who faced imminent execution by ISIS in Iraq, U.S. officials said Thursday.