The Israeli special forces unit Sayeret Matkal is on standby to try to rescue nearly 200 hostages taken by Hamas militants, it has been reported. That division and the Yamam special forces of Israel's ...

Opening fire as they stormed the plane's emergency exits and charged up the aisle, Israel's elite Sayeret Matkal commandos killed two Palestinian hijackers and overpowered the others, saving all but ...

The commander of the Israel Defense Forces Oketz (K-9) unit was one of many military officers who jumped into action before receiving official orders on Oct. 7 as Hamas terrorists breached the border, ...

JERUSALEM (AP) – When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to fill a sensitive Cabinet post recently, he turned to an old army buddy from his days in an elite commando unit. His choice for minister ...

Fires burn after an Israeli air strike on Sunday night in Syria, which preceded a ground attack - SANA/AFP via Getty Israeli special forces last week destroyed an underground missile factory in Syria ...

Maj. (res.) David Haim Meir, 31, a Sayeret Matkal soldier, from Jerusalem, was killed on October 7 battling the Hamas invasion of Kibbutz Be’eri. A reservist in the elite unit, David was called up the ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Forty years before becoming Israel's top decision-making duo, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak first made news on the blood-stained wing of a hijacked Belgian airliner.

Next up on our list of the countries with the best military special forces in the world is Israel, whose Sayeret Matkal is considered to be among the most elite special forces units going around.

With Israel and Palestine experiencing the worst violence in decades, we speak with two co-founders of Combatants for Peace, a group composed of people from both sides of the conflict who have ...

Israel has sent elite troops into Gaza as its ground invasion of the territory ramps up. Herzi Halevi, chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, said its "best soldiers" were in action.

An elite special forces group in Israel launched a rescue mission that resulted in the recapture of an Israeli military post in southern Israel, according to video footage released by the Israel ...