Founded for outcasts, fugitives, and fighters, the French Foreign Legion became one of the world’s most feared forces. But ...

Indonesian soldiers performed a rousing battle cry on Wednesday as they joined French and other international forces in Paris ...

The French government is preparing to present Alan Kinder, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, with the Legion of Honor, the European country’s highest decoration.

Through 1947 and 1948 the Indo-China war indeed seemed to be little more than another colonial war. In February 1947, the French drove the Communists away from Hanoi.

He went on to join the Foreign Legion as a paratrooper fighting in Indochina in 1953. Le Pen campaigned in the later 1950s to keep Algeria French, as an elected member of France's parliament and a ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the Holocaust, died on ...

A monarchist in his youth, Le Pen attended law school in Paris in the 1940s and in 1954 joined the French Foreign Legion, serving as a paratrooper in Algeria and in French Indochina.

A monarchist in his youth, Le Pen attended law school in Paris in the 1940s and in 1954 joined the French Foreign Legion, serving as a paratrooper in Algeria and in French Indochina.

Reuters French far-right National Front (FN) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen delivers a speech during a May Day ceremony in front of the statue of Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) in Paris, France, May 1, 2019.