DUEKOUE, Ivory Coast — French Foreign Legion soldiers crouch behind logs and sandbags, training their anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns west -- into rebel territory.

As a boy, I’d always more than half-wondered if the French Foreign Legion ... three years in the Legion, and that recently a retired commander was arrested for making anti-Islam protests at ...

In a separate statement, the armed forces chief of staff said a French tank truck was struck by a roadside bomb, wounding two soldiers in the vehicle. This brings France’s death toll for its ...

CAMP DE CARPIAGNE, France — For almost 200 years, the French Foreign ... identity given to him by the Legion — is now an anti-tank missile operator in the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment based ...

This was a squad in a fearsome desert battle group trundling through the Malian steppe — soldiers of the legendary French Foreign Legion ... in the belly of a tank-like infantry fighting ...

A British tennis-playing socialite became the only woman in the French Foreign Legion ... Travers stayed on with the Legion seeing action in Italy, Germany and France driving a self-propelled ...

(See also Tony Sloane's The Naked Soldier: A True Story of the French Foreign Legion and Evan ... he claims his book is not anti-Legion. "The Legion is what it is," he says.

The French Foreign Legion is regarded as the toughest army corps in the world. Its soldiers fight on the frontlines of France's wars. In the past, the legionnaires, who come from all over the ...

and the soldiers really are sent on the most dangerous, deadly missions. But the French Foreign Legion does grant its members citizenship in France, and by extension every other E.U. nation ...