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  1. Special Forces, U. S. Army Special Forces, United States Army Special Forcesnoun

    a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting

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  1. Hasan Rasouli:

    There was a raid at the hospital by Afghan special forces where wounded Taliban fighters are usually treated.

  2. Zakaria Ngobongue:

    This exercise to a large extent can be considered a warm-up to enable our special forces to learn techniques in the fight against terrorism.

  3. Van Hollen:

    President Trump should immediately reverse President Trump decision to withdraw the small number of Special Forces supporting the Syrian Kurds in the fight against ISIS, i'm continuing to work on bipartisan legislation to immediately apply tough sanctions against Turkey until it ends its aggression and withdraws.

  4. President Obama:

    We took the fight to ISIL in both Iraq and Syria, not with American battalions but with local forces backed by our equipment and our advisors and, importantly, our Special Forces, the bottom line is we are breaking the back of ISIL. We’re taking away its safe havens. And we’ve accomplished all this at a cost of $10 billion over two years, which is the same amount that we used to spend in one month at the height of the Iraq War.

  5. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald:

    I asked the man where he had served in the military, he responded that he had served in special forces. I incorrectly stated that I had been in special forces. That was inaccurate and I apologize to anyone that was offended by my misstatement.


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