A look at what really happened on the day an American helicopter was shot down over Somalia in 1993.

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.

Three special forces units travel to Syria to take out the mastermind behind the country's nuclear weapons program

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Two aid workers are kidnapped in Afghanistan.

A look at the incredible Israeli assasination plot to bring down Abu Jibad.

The story of the rebirth of the SAS, as British soldiers take part in a counter insurgency campaign called the Malayan Emergency.

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.