The famous sand-coloured Special Air Service beret None of those accusing the ... had already assumed control from the SBS as the lead British unit in Iraq, where Task Force Black and then Task ...

Montgomery meets the men and finds them all wearing red berets — apart from Paddy Mayne (Jack O'Connell). Mayne explains his actions by saying he feels the SAS are different from all the other ...

The Special Air Service was formed by David Stirling in 1941. Its purpose was to act as a desert raiding airborne force unit ...

The Sunni Arab population in Iran who helped in removing the Shah were soon targeted by Khomeini’s fundamentalist and strict Shi’a government. This would have wider repercussions far beyond the ...

The closure of a military police investigation into suspected war crimes by the SAS was "inappropriate and premature", a ...

British military police previously conducted investigations into allegations of war crimes by the SAS but concluded that there was insufficient evidence for prosecutions. The MoD has refrained ...

Two SAS soldiers on a secret mission were captured ... They were released only after a "high-level intervention" by the British Government - believed to involve a visit by Foreign Office Minister ...

Afghan children were among “innocents” allegedly executed by British special forces during ... The allegations focus on the activities of an SAS unit, referred to as UKSF1 in the inquiry ...

A former senior UK Special Forces officer has told a public inquiry into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan that the SAS had a "golden pass allowing them to get away with murder". The accusation ...

Stirling remained in the escape-proof Colditz for the rest of the war, but during his confinement worked to establish the Colditz British Intelligence Unit. While Stirling's incarceration initially ...