 The company was approached by a representative of the United Arab Emirates government to carry out assassinations in Yemen as part of the Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), which may be a violation of the War Crimes Act of 1996.In 2015, the company embedded a team of US special forces veterans and former members of the French Foreign Legion within the Emirati military, which supplied the team with weapons, uniforms, Emirati military ranks, and dog tags.By 2016, Spear Operations Group had replaced the Legionnaires with Americans.