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The foreign SAS (the Audience and New Zealand SAS) are every bit as good as their British brothers. Even the former Rhodesian SAS was very good to the point of being considered the best counter - insurgency group in the world at the time. Once Mugabe took over, and Rhodes is became Zimbabwe, many went to South Africa or joined mercenary groups.

Anyways, selection for SAS is still one of the most difficult, and if the SAS - any of the SAS groups - is going after ISIS then that is good news.

As an aside, I always feel bad for the SBS. Tougher selection than the SAS (to be in the SBS you have to finish SAS selection, then continue with some water based selection), but considerably less 'fame' than the SAS. To make matters worse, a good number of missions said to be SAS are actually SBS. For example the joint Delta Force/SAS mission to capture Bin Laden at ToraBora was actually a Delta/SBS mission. I've even seen work done by the SBS mistakenly credited to the SAS' boat troop!!!!

The Shaky Boats never get the credit they deserve. Ironically, in the US, it seems to be the opposite. DEVGRU, aka Seal Team 6 (which is the American version of the SBS) seems to get credit that should have been equally shared with Delta (the American version of the SAS).