The best-selling author’s new book is about the standoff and eventual rescue operation in 1980 at the Iranian Embassy in ...

Founded in 1977, Delta Force is the U.S. Army’s elite special operations unit, specializing in counterterrorism, hostage ...

Day Hostage Crisis and The Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World The Reviewer — Nick Fishwick CMG retired after nearly thirty years in the British Foreign Service. His postings ...

As Ben Macintyre’s gripping account of one of the most astonishing assaults to happen on British soil is released, former foreign secretary Jack Straw reflects on the impact of the siege on our own ...

is the U.S. Army's premier counterterrorism and hostage rescue unit, created in the late 1970s by Green Beret officer Charlie Beckwith. Modeled after the British SAS, Delta is divided into four ...

Acclaimed historian Ben Macintyre’s new book uncovers the secrets behind the British Army’s most audacious rescue mission ... Thatcher ordered in the SAS. The first hostage to die, Abbas Lavasani, was ...

The partner of an SAS hero killed in action is to sue the ... after he was the only soldier killed in a daring hostage rescue in Sierra Leone last year. The couple had known each other for 11 ...

An SAS hero stormed ... including one British man and an American woman, while another Brit is amongst the wounded. The soldier is said to have taken part in the rescue mission with US Navy ...

Maj Gen Charlie Herbert, a retired British Army general ... and Samer Talalka The 1980 SAS siege of the Iranian embassy in London is perhaps the most iconic hostage rescue of modern times, as ...

The story has been largely forgotten in America, which was consumed with its own Iranian hostage crisis at the time, but in ...

One more Israeli hostage has been rescued ... operatives from the Israel Security Agency also contributed to the rescue. Alkadi, 52, has been held in the Gaza Strip for almost a year.