One of the most famous operations that Delta Force participated in was in 1980, during an attempt to rescue American hostages held in Tehran during an operation called “Eagle’s Claw”.

The operation was described as a failure, due to a malfunction in the equipment of the flight operators, which caused the death of eight Americans, and then the 160th special operations unit of the Air Force was established.

According to the website “Insider”, in July 1983, Delta Force participated in the liberation of five Western “missionaries”, including two American citizens, who were being held by militants of the South Sudan Liberation Front. . It also participated in Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait after the invasion of Iraq in 1991.

In 1993, Delta carried out an operation in Mogadishu, with the aim of arresting the leader of the Somali army, General Mohamed Farah Aidid, but it suffered a heavy blow, after 18 of those forces were killed and 73 others were wounded.

This unit also participated in the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq between 2003 and 2011, and carried out the famous “Red Dawn” operation that arrested former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

According to the Military Commentary website, there are other famous operations in which they participated, such as the evacuation of the US embassy in Libya during the Benghazi attack in 2012, the arrest of the Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and the invasion of Syria from can mention the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.