\n The military organisation is known for some daring missions in its history like the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980.\n<\/p>\n
\n Here are five recent missions that the SAS has been involved in during the 2020s.\n<\/p>\n
Operation Northern Sentinel<\/p>\n
\n In winter 2025\/2026, the SAS’s G Squadron was deployed to Estonia and Latvia.\n<\/p>\n
\n This was part of Operation Northern Sentinel, a counter-sabotage mission in the Baltic region.\n<\/p>\n
\n The mission was in response to escalating hybrid warfare threats.\n<\/p>\n
\n The UK special forces worked with local security services to identify and neutralise sabotage cells targeting energy infrastructure.\n<\/p>\n
\n By January 2026, high-value intelligence assets attempting to cross the Narva border were detained.\n<\/p>\n
Sudan evacuation mission<\/p>\n
\n In April 2023, during the outbreak of civil war in Sudan, SAS operators took part in a high-risk night-time evacuation.\n<\/p>\n
\n British diplomats and their families were rescued from Khartoum.\n<\/p>\n
\n The mission was approved by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after a COBR meeting.\n<\/p>\n
\n A team of elite Royal Marines, SAS, and RAF operatives flew into the capital aboard an American military aircraft.\n<\/p>\n
\n They navigated through active fighting and multiple checkpoints to reach the British diplomats and their families.\n<\/p>\n
\n The group was then driven 18 miles to an airfield where RAF transport planes evacuated them to safety.\n<\/p>\n
Ukraine deployments<\/p>\n
\n Throughout 2022 and 2023, SAS personnel were reportedly deployed to Ukraine on multiple occasions.\n<\/p>\n
\n Their mission was to train Ukrainian special forces and support sabotage and reconnaissance operations against Russian forces.\n<\/p>\n
\n Leaked US military documents from early 2023 suggested that the UK had deployed around 50 special forces personnel, including the SAS, to Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n
\n This was more than half of all Western special forces in the country at that time.\n<\/p>\n
Red Sea coastal raids<\/p>\n
\n In late 2025, SAS and SBS teams conducted coastal raids against Houthi command and control centres in Yemen.\n<\/p>\n
\n These were part of ongoing efforts to counter Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.\n<\/p>\n
\n The operations were “boots on the ground” missions, distinct from US airstrikes.\n<\/p>\n
\n They aimed to secure sensitive guidance technology used in anti-ship missiles.\n<\/p>\n
\n The missions resulted in the disruption of drone supply lines and the recovery of Iranian-manufactured missile components for analysis.\n<\/p>\n
Domestic counter-terror operations<\/p>\n
\n On the home front, SAS troopers have been deployed to support domestic counter-terrorism operations in recent years.\n<\/p>\n
\n In October 2020, British Special Forces boarded and took control of the oil tanker Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight after seven stowaways made verbal threats to the crew.\n<\/p>\n
\n In November 2021, SAS operators assisted with raids in Liverpool following the taxi cab blast outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital.\n<\/p>\n
\n These operations underscore the SAS’s continued role in the UK’s “Black Role” of domestic counter-terrorism and hostage rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The military organisation is known for some daring missions in its history like the Iranian Embassy Siege in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}