That commander, Yonatan Netanyahu, was the only Israeli military casualty of the operation, struck by a bullet while advancing with his men toward the terminal where the hostages were held.
A local fisherman observing our impromptu rescue operation struck up a conversation with us.
The government operation strikes at a time when a number of complex, interrelated factors are putting enormous stress on the average Zimbabwean.
In response to Mr. Panetta's decision, a small Special Operations "strike force" team moved from Central Europe to the Sigonella Air Base in Sicily while two Navy destroyers already in the Mediterranean were moved off the Libyan coast.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Taliban group forced into a remote border area by Pakistani military operations struck back Friday with a large and highly coordinated attack against the government's paramilitary forces, Pakistani officials said.
The Pentagon has organized occasional Special Operations strikes to take out wanted Somali terrorist suspects — the Shabab have drawn increasingly close to Al Qaeda — and the American government is paying contractors to train African Union troops in the ABCs of urban combat.
Amaq, a news agency affiliated with Islamic State, said in a report Thursday that "six martyrdom operations" struck government forces in Bartella, a reference to the suicide attacks.
It was there in the fall of 2011 that Will Ritter, the Romney campaign's director of operations, struck up a conversation with Joe Funk, a member of the candidate's security detail.
In Operation Lightning Strike's first arrests, early this month, the agents charged a man with operating a 1,000-gallon 1,000-gallon
Still, the report may tarnish Mr. Netanyahu's leadership credentials at a time when Israel insists on keeping open the possibility of a larger military operation, a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
