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

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

Sporting night-vision goggles, US-made rifles and other modern combat equipment, Afghanistan's special forces stunned the Taliban when they first emerged in 2008.

June 15, 2009: The new commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has a Special Forces background, and is expected to change the rules for how special operations forces operate there. From the beginning, ...

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 ...

With US force levels in Afghanistan scheduled to drop from some 90,000 currently to 68,000 troops by October, Special Operations Forces (SOF) will take on an increasingly pivotal role in the ...

1st Special Forces Command wrote on social media: "Our condolences go out to Billy's family, friends, and loved ones. He will be missed. We will always honor and remember him." ...

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — In nearly nine years of warfare in Afghanistan, U.S. Special Forces have done their fighting in the shadows, governed by rules largely of their own making.

Afghanistan's much-maligned security forces were facing their greatest challenge yet in trying to retake a key northern city from the Taliban -- and expectations were not high. But, when the smoke ...

According to wire services, approximately eight U.S. Special Forces officers arrived in northern Afghanistan Wednesday to meet with Northern Alliance Gen. Rashid Dostum.

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 ...

Special Forces soldiers are considered the premiere experts in unconventional warfare and foreign internal defense, with a history dating back to Nazi-occupied Norway in the early 1940s.