Colonel Euan Houstoun, who has died aged 78, served with the Grenadier Guards and the Special Forces and commanded a squadron of 22 SAS Regiment behind enemy lines in the Falklands War. In April 1982, ...

Preface -- Abbreviations -- The tractor job: 2 Squadron, March 1968 -- Towards special forces: Australia, 1940-1957 -- The 1st SAS Company: Swanbourne, 1957-1963 -- To Borneo: formation of the ...

The Special Air Service Regiment, officially abbreviated SASR though commonly known as the SAS, is a special forces unit of the Australian Army. Formed in 1957, it was modelled on the British SAS ...

SYDNEY — Australian special forces soldiers, mainly from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment, executed 39 prisoners, farmers and other civilians during the Afghanistan war, the chief of the ...

Twenty years ago Thursday, the British Army’s 22nd Special Air Service Regiment D-Squadron carried out a daring rescue operation in Sierra Leone. By the end of the battle which followed, all of the ...

To join the ranks of Australia's elite SAS regiment you've got to make it through one of the toughest training courses in the world.