STORY: French troops lowered their flag from a base in Chad on Friday, marking the end of France's military presence in the ...

France waged a war marked by "extreme violence" during Cameroon's fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said ...

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would ...

Valérie André, a French military officer, brain surgeon, and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — during the French-Indochina war ...

At the end of December and the beginning of January Jews around the world celebrated the Festival of Lights, known as ...

The local visits are part of a 13-month, 24-state “Bicentennial of Lafayette’s Farewell Tour” that kicked off last August in ...

Ivory Coast is the sixth in a growing list of African nations cutting military ... French troops kill tens of West African soldiers angry at their treatment after fighting for Paris in World War ...

In 1825 Canandaigua, the “Nation’s Guest” — Marquis de Lafayette, a French military officer and ... Lafayette played no small role in the war for independence. According to several ...

France’s military withdrawals provide West African states with a long overdue opportunity to assert their sovereignty. But ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...