A kaleidoscopic hail of tracer fire swept across the alley — green, red, orange — casting a neon glow on the darkened streets of Mogadishu. Shell casings showered down from helicopters as Spc. Arthur ...

At the end of the movie “Black Hawk Down,” Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant (played by actor Ron Eldard) is sitting in a dark room as a prisoner of the Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid, as a ...

FORT NOVOSEL, Ala. -Fort Novosel held a week of remembrance to honor the fallen of the Battle of Mogadishu and their efforts in Somalia in 1993. Included in the events were the Iron Squad Challenge ...

Eighteen Americans were killed in the battle in Somalia. It was 25 years ago this week that some of America's most elite military forces were pinned down by hundreds of Somali fighters in an intense ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - It’s one of the most famous battles in military history, and involved Rangers trained on Fort Benning. More than a dozen heroes who took part in the Battle of Mogadishu were ...

If you’ve ever watched the movie “Black Hawk Down,” then you’ve seen a depiction of the horrors one Gulf Breeze man experienced during the longest night of his life. Ret. Army Col. Larry Perino, 53, ...

"I was sure my family were dead." Netflix has unveiled a trailer for Surviving Black Hawk Down, a 3-episode docu series that will be streaming on Netflix starting in February. The doc is a "360-degree ...

Twenty-two years later, Somalia is largely unchanged. Synonymous with war, terrorism and piracy, the country where 18 Americans died during a bloody battle on Oct. 3, 1993 is still a dangerous, ...

Oct. 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1919, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Dolf Luque becomes the first Latino player to appear in a World Series. Luque was born in Havana, Cuba, on Aug. 4, 1890. In ...