Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request in 2013, France has given up most of its military footprint across west ...

The handover of the last French military base in Chad and the Sahel marks a loss of influence for Paris and European ...

The Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, announced on 28 January that it had ...

France rejected criticism from new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that it lagged in defence, saying it met NATO's target to spend 2% of GDP on its military, was on course to double spending by ...

One woman who was carrying her child and a few belongings told the BBC's Great Lakes service: “Bombs from clashes kept ...