More than 200 troops were due to arrive in the Gulf this weekend to spearhead ... Meanwhile, the role of the SAS in preparations for a new war against Saddam emerged last night.

Two of them served behind Iraqi lines destroying Scud missiles during the Gulf War. The SAS was chosen for the operation because of its frontline rescues in the past decade. They snatched war ...

Adapted by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) from a book by Ben MacIntyre, it claimed to tell the origin story of the formation of the SAS during the Second World War – a maverick, and highly under ...