Black Ops

Recalling the Oct. 3, 1993, Battle of Mogadishu, the U.S. Army Rangers' failed mission to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid, which resulted in 18 American deaths.

A March 2003 clash in Iraq between U.S. Special Forces and Ansar al-Islam insurgents is recalled. 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.

Israeli Defence Forces plan an attack in Syria on what is believed to be a nuclear facility.

Kidnapped aid workers in Afghanistan present a difficult rescue mission for U.S. Navy SEALs and Britain's Special Air Service.

A 1988 mission by Israeli commandos to assassinate Palestinian leader Khalil al-Wazir is examined.

The Malayan Emergency in 1948 draws the British Special Air Service into the fight against communist forces.

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.