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

The International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine is one of the most professional and effective units within Ukraine’s armed forces—despite operating largely under the radar of international media.

But first, Kinder will be recognized at home. On Saturday, the French government will present him with the Legion of Honor, the European country’s highest decoration. Established by Napoleon ...

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.

Through 1947 and 1948 the Indo-China war indeed seemed to be little more than another colonial war. In February 1947, the French drove the Communists away from Hanoi.

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 ...

The French Foreign Legion: once infamous, now fighting a new battle. In French Guiana’s rainforest, they’re tracking illegal gold miners destroying nature. DW joined them on their mission ...

World War II veteran Ray Terwillegar, left, is congratulated by members of the Midland Area Honor Guard after receiving a French Legion of Honor at Ingersoll Township Hall on Nov. 19, 2024.

08/26/2024 The Indochina War was one of the bloodiest chapters in French colonial history. Beginning in 1946, the Vietnamese fought to gain their independence from France.

Employed with heavy losses during the First and Second World Wars, the Foreign Legion units were later massively deployed first on the front of the First Indochina War (1945-1954) against the Vietminh ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the French-Indochina War, a colonial conflict in which many Moroccans were enlisted from 1947 to 1954.

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