A French Foreign Legion armored personnel carrier. Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, based in Senegal. She joined The Times in 2019 after three and a half years ...

7. Failure is kind of the point, or at least is not a drawback. The French Foreign Legion exists to remove these men from society. If they die on the mission, it’s not much of an issue.

KABUL, Afghanistan – France says 2 members of the French Foreign Legion have been killed in Afghanistan. A statement from the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy says a solider in the ...

Second Lt. Lawrence J. Franks Jr., a West Point graduate, had disappeared from Fort Drum in 2009, and at one point his battalion had searched the surrounding woods for his body.

Francisco Benitez, chief warrant officer in charge of recruitment in the Foreign Legion, was discovered in the barracks where he worked in the southwestern city of Perpignan, a source close to the ...

A West Point-educated American officer who served in the French Foreign Legion after deserting his U.S. Army unit before its deployment to Afghanistan has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Hundreds of fireman fought to control fires raging across more than 1,300 hectares (3,000 acres) of dry garrigues, or scrub-land, after the tracer bullets were used during a Foreign Legion ...

When the Spanish officer José Millán-Astray proposed his army should found a French-style Foreign Legion in 1919, Spain’s colonial ambitions in Morocco were growing, and the right longed to restore ...

Retired Cst. Leask, who was dressed in his pristine Canadian Army dress uniform, received the French Legion of Honor medal in a ceremony at Vancouver Police headquarters today.

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