More than just a fixture in movies from the 30's and 40's, the French Foreign Legion has seen more continuous fighting than any other military outfit in the world.

A member of the French Foreign Legion salutes American soldiers as they march by during a parade June 4, 2014, in the streets of Carentan, France. The parade was part of the commemorative 70th ...

The French Foreign Legion has developed a lore of haunted romance, ... A look at the modern-day French Foreign Legion () Nov 14, 2012 Listen • 7:37 ...

The elite combat unit - formed in 1831 - is the only part of the French army that accepts foreign recruits, and today has people from around 150 countries among its 8,000 troops.

France created the foreign legion in 1831 to swell its military with foreign-born troops that could handle unsavory and difficult assignments. Foreign-born legionnaires can become French citizens ...

Formed in 1831, the French Foreign Legion was to become the colonial force par excellence.With a mandate to enlist only men from other nations, the Legion conducted perilous overseas missions ...

The Legion has a lot of dirty laundry that almost never gets exposed due to the unit's notoriously secretive nature. For one thing, desertion is, and always has been, rampant in the Foreign Legion. As ...

Since its formation in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has had boots on the ground in five continents, on terrain ranging from sun-baked deserts, to snowy wastelands, to festering jungle swamps ...

The French Foreign Legion, one of the world's most legendary fighting forces, is to allow women into its ranks for the first time. The move follows an order by the French defence ministry, which wants ...