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Colombian mercenaries are being lured to Mexico to fight for powerful drug trafficking groups such as the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
When he heard about a supposed job with the French Foreign Legion offering $3,000 a month, he signed up, imaging a future guarding dignitaries or assisting in peacekeeping missions.
The Origin of Cinco de Mayo Subsequent to its internecine War of Reform in 1858, Mexico was dead broke, so newly-elected President Benito Juárez decided to suspend all foreign debt payments for ...
Gen. WOLL arrived at Vera Cruz on the 13th of March by the French mail steamer. It was said there that he had been decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and had been received several ...
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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 ...
The Foreign Legion, a corps of about 10,000 soldiers founded nearly 195 years ago, requires soldiers to change their names on enlistment and allows them to apply for French citizenship after ...
The elite French Foreign Legion is preparing for security duty in Paris during this summer’s Olympic Games, a far cry from the group's previous deployments to places like the troubled Sahel ...