$550 per month behind the front line $1,100 per month for service in a dangerous zone Up to $4,800 per month for combat deployment In comparison, the French Foreign Legion has a basic salary of €1,600 ...

Members of the French Foreign Legion and British soldiers have started a joint military exercise in northeastern France, applying urban warfare lessons from the war in Ukraine. A French officer, ...

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The French Foreign Legion: once infamous, now fighting a new battle. In French Guiana’s rainforest, they’re tracking illegal gold miners destroying nature. DW joined them on their mission ...

Australian Army soldier Sergeant Matthew Reid, of Combat Training Centre's Jungle Training Wing, wearing the coveted Jaguar Brevet after completing the Jaguar Course in Kourou, French Guiana.

The elite military unit will change its focus and take charge of policing the French capital. They will work alongside the police and the rest of the army to ensure the security of the Olympic ...

It includes a link to a statement released by the Russian government on April 3, 2024, that France "could bring to combat readiness 1,500 troops for Ukraine" and other articles about the alleged ...

He said French troops have been deployed to support Kyiv’s 54th independent mechanised brigade. As per the report, 100 french foreign legion soldiers are deployed in the city of Slavyansk.

"Foreign Legion operator" wanted, it read. Must be under 50, highly disciplined, physically fit, with at least five years of military experience and able to deal with "high stress conditions." ...

The series will follow a British deserter from the infamous French Foreign Legion who is found twenty years after fleeing the harsh reality of his mercenary service and forced back with the new ...

Although Spain founded a Foreign Tercio in 1920 imitating the French Foreign Legion, later renamed Spanish Legion, there were some years in which France transferred theirs to the Spanish government.