Special Air Service Timeline of Events

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Special Air Service

Special Air Service or SAS is a corps of the British Army constituted on 31 May 1950. They are part of the United Kingdom Special Forces and have served as a model for the special forces of many other countries all over the world...

Timeline of Events

1980

5.5.1980

Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.

1987

5.8.1987

The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kills 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.

1988

3.6.1988

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.