Founded for outcasts, fugitives, and fighters, the French Foreign Legion became one of the world’s most feared forces. But ...

The French government is preparing to present Alan Kinder, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, with the Legion of Honor, the European country’s highest decoration.

One man wore a shirt emblazoned with "REGIMENT ETRANGER DES PARACHUTISTES", the French Foreign Legion's parachute regiment, which successfully fought in Zaire, Congo's former name, in 1978 to ...

French foreign intelligence chief: 'Islamist terrorism is a threat that our societies will have to face over the long term' In an interview with Le Monde, Nicolas Lerner, the head of the General ...

Romanian authorities are investigating the presence of former members of the French Foreign Legion, now active in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the country following the cancelation of the ...

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 ...

For France—with more imperial experience and more policing and counter-insurgency operations in line, and with an offer of French rights, if not French citizenship—acquiring a foreign legion ...

Rumor spread on social media suggests France deployed troops to Ukraine following comments by French President Emmanuel Macron.

A foreign legion is "something of a break from the past [for the UAE] because it seems to be more institutionalized, less ad hoc than some of the other activities they have been involved in ...

Although Spain founded a Foreign Tercio in 1920 imitating the French Foreign Legion, later renamed Spanish Legion, there were some years in which France transferred theirs to the Spanish government.