Tiger Squad
| Rapid Intervention Force | |
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| قوة تدخل سريع | |
| Active | 2017–present |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Allegiance | Crown prince of Saudi Arabia |
| Branch | Saudi Royal Guard Regiment |
| Type | Protective security units |
| Size | approx. 150 |
| Nicknames | Tiger Squad, Lethal Capabilities Crew, Midnight Dancers |
| Engagements | Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi Kidnapping and torture of Loujain al-Hathloul |
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The Tiger Squad (Arabic: فرقة النمر, Firqat el-Nemr), also known as UNIT 1103, and officially called the Rapid Intervention Force (Arabic: قوة التدخل السريع, Quat al-Tadakhul al-Sarie), is a protective security unit under the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman. According to an unnamed source interviewed by the London-based online news outlet Middle East Eye following the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 and a BBC source inside Saudi Arabia who has a relative in the squad, it is a Saudi team that consists of approximately one-hundred fifty Saudi officers.
According to the Middle East Eye source, the Tiger Squad is a death squad of members from the military and intelligence agencies that has the mandate to carry out anti-irregular forces, clandestine and covert operations, commando style raids, executions killing Saudi dissidents inside Saudi Arabia and abroad in a way that "goes unnoticed by the media, the international community and politicians", executive protection, force protection in royal palace, manhunt, and urban counterterrorism. Sa'ad Al-Faqih, a Saudi opposition leader who claims he knows about this squad, confirmed that the role of the squad was to target and kill Saudi opponents.