SEAL Team Six
One of the United States' two secretive tier-one counter-terrorism and Special Mission Units
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April 22 2023 | SEAL Team Six, along with the Army's 3rd Special Forces Group, conducted an evacuation operation in Sudan, successfully extracting 70 staff members from the US Embassy during the ongoing conflict. |
2022 | A CIA MQ-1B Predator UAV strike was conducted in the same area where the 2005 SEAL Team Six mission was planned, nearly killing al-Zawahiri. |
August 2021 | SEAL Team Six (DEVGRU) participated in the evacuation efforts at Hamid Karzai International Airport during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, assisting in the extraction of US citizens and vulnerable Afghan civilians during the Kabul Airlift. |
October 29 2020 | SEAL Team Six conducted a precision hostage rescue operation in Niger, rescuing Philip Walton and killing 6 out of 7 captors, based on CIA intelligence and supported by MARSOC elements. |
October 26 2020 | U.S. citizen Philip Walton was abducted from his farm in Massalata, southern Niger by armed kidnappers. |
January 27 2020 | DEVGRU (SEAL Team Six) conducted a personnel recovery mission at a US Bombardier E-11A jet crash site in mountainous eastern Afghanistan, retrieving US personnel killed in the incident. |
2017 | SEAL Team Six deployed to Mali to support French and Malian counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other terrorist cells. |
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