Article snippet: The U.S. Army’s Delta Force, 75th Ranger Regiment, and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment conducted the raid on the world’s most wanted jihadi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the emir of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to two U.S. officials. The highly secretive Delta Force, known as the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (SFOD-D), is a special mission unit under Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which commands the elite of the elite special operations forces. They are also referred to as Tier One forces and are tasked with special missions, such as the operation to kill Osama Bin Laden. Delta Force soldiers were among the first to engage ISIS after the terrorist group swept across Iraq in 2014. The first U.S. service member to be killed in the war against ISIS was Army Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, who was a member of Delta Force, on October 22, 2015. Rangers are the Army’s premier light infantry forces, and the 160th SOAR is the Army’s elite aviation unit specializing in nighttime raids, giving them the name “Night Stalkers.” President Donald Trump on Sunday praised the forces he authorized to conduct the raid but did not mention the units that took part in the operation. “U.S. Special Operations Forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid in northwestern Syria and accomplished their mission in grand style. The U.S. personnel were incredible. I got to watch much of it,” he said during a 48-minute live press c... Link to the full article to read more