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Special Air Service
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Special Air Service

Specialist British regiment recruited from regiments throughout the army. It has served in Malaysia, Oman, Yemen, the Falklands, Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as well as against international urban guerrillas, as in the siege of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980.



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Then shortly after, in 1942, came the Special Operations section of the US Office of Strategic Services; France eventually formed its own groups to fight alongside the British SAS commandoes in Africa and in the Middle East.
21, Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan Jabr - a former commander of SCIRI's Badr forces - disputed that assertion, telling the BBC that the two British SAS officers were never handed over to militia members.
Players also will be able to set up coalitions with various international Special Forces like the British SAS and the Russian Spetznaz.
 
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