The ISOF (Iraqi Special Operations Forces) consist of one brigade and some 1,400 troops. The brigade has two combat battalions (the Counter-Terrorism Task Force and the Commando battalion) and two ...

Meet the Iraqi Special Operations Forces. (SOUNDBITE OF TRUCK ENGINES) FORDHAM: At one of their bases, three black Humvees full of men in black uniforms kick up a cloud of dust as they head to the ...

Members of the Iraqi Counterterrorism Service (CTS) rehearse clearing operations in Diyala Province, Iraq, in April 2019. U.S. Army Special Forces have a long history with the CTS, dating back to the ...

Not quite yet,” the head of the Iraqi Joint Operations and Anti-terrorism Force said Monday during the 9th Middle East Special Operations Commanders Conference held in Amman, Jordan.

Iraqi special-operations forces are continuing that fight against the remnants of the terrorist group. Those Iraqi forces have been working closely with their US counterparts for nearly 20 years.

Meanwhile, elite Iraqi special forces troops moved into position Thursday to the east of Mosul. They’re fighting to recapture several Christian towns and villages along the main road into the city.

More recently, U.S. special operations troops and Iraqi forces raided a compound in northern Iraq in October, freeing about 70 Iraqi prisoners who were facing execution.

MOSUL, Iraq --Iraqi special forces launched a two-pronged assault deeper into Mosul’s urban center on Friday, unleashing the most intense street battles against Islamic State militants since the ...

Some U.S. Special Operations forces currently operate inside Iraq in an advise-and-assist role with Iraqi and Kurdish forces, but have not engaged in unilateral raids, U.S. officials said.

As U.S. troops gradually curtail combat operations in Iraq, Iraqi soldiers are taking over the task of securing the country -- and for Iraqi special forces, that means hunting down insurgents and ...

US Special Operations Forces are playing an important role on the ground in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, ... which is now largely encircled by more than 100,000 Iraqi forces, ...