U.S. Army Special Forces, also known as Green Berets, are working closely with locals in western Afghanistan to rebuild schools, expand health clinics and build a local police force that can ...

HERAT PROVINCE, Afghanistan (USASOC News Service, Oct. 21, 2013) -- The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was activated in September 1961.

Dewey Yopp, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, says his Afghan translator saved his life four times during the war in Afghanistan.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Master Sgt. Luis F. Deleon-Figueroa, 31, and Master Sgt. Jose J. Gonzalez, 35, U.S. Special Forces Soldiers, were killed Aug. 21, during combat ...

Then-Sgt. Williams served as a weapons sergeant with Operational Detachment Alpha 3336, Special Operations Task Force 11, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan, during the ...

The special units were primarily trained by the U.S. and British militaries, with some trained in overseas academies. Since 2007, 10 special-operations kandaks, or battalions, have been formed.

Captain Benjamin "Ben" Harrow is a decorated US Army Green Beret. A former collegiate lacrosse player, he trained at West ...

Most Americans tend to forget that the U.S. Army Special Forces are a unique organization in military, and intelligence, history. No other nation has anything like the Special Forces, and never had.

Born on October 4, 1987, Ard enlisted in the Army in Hyde Park, Utah, in 2011, as a Special Forces candidate through the 18X program. He was assigned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and attended ...

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, has brought most American Special Operations forces under his direct control for the first time.

Two U.S. Special Forces soldiers were killed August 21 in Afghanistan. The U.S. Army Special Operations Command has released their names 24 hours after their families were notified.