Mumbai is under bloody attack and only one Special Force has the know-how and training to take the terrorists to task. In November 2008, an undisclosed number of assassins went on a three-day rampage of death and destruction in India’s largest city.
October 2002. Russia's elite force, Spetnaz Group Alfa, face an impossible task - to rescue 800 people held hostage by Chechen gunmen and suicide bombers inside a Moscow theatre. Negotiations have failed and innocent lives hang in the balance.
This is the story of the most daring black ops raid in recent history. The inside account of operation Neptune Spear: how US Navy Seals brought to an end the hunt for the most wanted man in the world, and took down the mastermind of 9/11: Osama Bin Laden.
Al-Zarqawi- the most wanted man in Iraq, is proving a formidable enemy. Responsible for bombings, beheadings and attacks, he’s more persistent than Saddam and more active than Osama. The coalition’s only hope lies with a top secret task force.
June 27, 1976 Four terrorists hijack a flight bound for Paris. Forcing the plane to land in Entebbe Uganda they move their hostages to an old terminal. The passengers’ fate, most of them Jewish or Israeli, lies in the hands of Israel’s top black ops team.
August 25th, 2000: Sierra Leone, West Africa. The Royal Irish Regiment, a unit of the British Army, takes a wrong turn on patrol. They are held up on the roadside by a notorious gang of rebels; the 'West Side Boys'.
Recalling the Oct. 3, 1993, Battle of Mogadishu, the U.S. Army Rangers' failed mission to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid, which resulted in 18 American deaths.
A March 2003 clash in Iraq between U.S. Special Forces and Ansar al-Islam insurgents is recalled. A group of terrorists are hiding in Iraqi Kurdistan where they control a mountainous area known as the Halabja salient - US Army Special Forces are sent deep behind Iraqi lines to eliminate the terrorists with the help of local Kurdish fighters.
Israeli Defence Forces plan an attack in Syria on what is believed to be a nuclear facility.
Kidnapped aid workers in Afghanistan present a difficult rescue mission for U.S. Navy SEALs and Britain's Special Air Service.
A 1988 mission by Israeli commandos to assassinate Palestinian leader Khalil al-Wazir is examined.
The Malayan Emergency in 1948 draws the British Special Air Service into the fight against communist forces.
A look at the cross country operation that saw the SAS team up with the German GSG in order to solve the hijacking of the Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977.
The show takes a look at the bloody end to the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, back in 1997.
