British troops are playing a deadly game to end a Taliban sniper's reign in Helmand's most ... The insurgent took a shot and the Paras returned fire. He fled on a motorcycle and when he got ...

Paras told yesterday how they fought 70 fierce battles in four months defending their base in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Speaking on their homecoming, the hero Paras described it as a battle ...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan (Army News Service, April 23, 2007) - Soldiers from Task Force Fury are the first in a combat zone to receive a new sniper rifle, the XM110 semi ...

So writes Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving in “The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers,” a gripping account from a man whose lethal aim ...

Five years after UK combat forces pulled out of Afghanistan, 400 troops from East Anglia are back in the country with a different role. Their job is to protect Nato advisers, who are working with ...

Three British soldiers understood to be working with special forces have been killed in southern Afghanistan. The servicemen, from the Parachute Regiment, died north of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province ...

WASHINGTON – A Marine Corps sniper stationed at the Kabul airport ... s hectic withdrawal in the final hours of the war in Afghanistan. Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who was seriously wounded ...

An Afghan sniper trained by British special forces ... who worked with the British unit that set up and trained Afghanistan's elite Commando Force 333 (CF333), said he received the voice message ...