Israel has put its special hostage extraction unit on standby to attempt the rescue of civilians taken into Gaza by Hamas terrorists on Saturday. The unit, modelled on the British SAS, was famously ...

The Hamas terror group continues to released information about the highly classified special-operations unit that fought their way out of Gaza in last week's botched ...

Israel's Sayaret Matkal special forces unit was modelled on the Special Air Service regiment. This photo shows Australian SAS soldiers during patrol in the Afghanistan conflict. (Simon O'Dwyer/Sydney ...

ISRAEL is preparing to launch a celebrated special forces unit modelled on Britain’s SAS to rescue hostages in Gaza. The Sayeret Matkal are the prime special forces unit of Israel and experts in ...

JERUSALEM – 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 of ...

Israel's most elite special operations force, Sayeret Matkal, is being prepped for extremely dangerous hostage-rescue missions in the Gaza Strip, British daily The ...

On June 27, 1976, an Airbus A300 operated by Air France took off from Tel Aviv on its way to Paris. Many of the 248 civilian passengers were looking forward to a summer holiday in Europe, which was ...

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev’s revelation of previously classified details of an elite soldier’s 1984 death during a television interview Tuesday has sparked renewed interest in the ...

A former commander and his deputy in an elite reconnaissance unit in the Israel Defense Forces on Sunday backed the legal claim of women who want to serve as commando soldiers and in general infantry ...

The commander of Sayeret Matkal, Colonel H, will finish his job in two months and, in a rare step, will not continue to serve in the IDF and will retire to civilian service, Yediot Aharonot learned.