Did the British Broadcasting Corp. publish a video report that French President Emmanuel Macron is deploying 800 French ...

As soon as the French Foreign Legion moved in this summer, some of the men climbed on the roof of the base headquarters and painted the force's Latin motto in big white letters. Subscribe to read this ...

Edouard Elias first embedded with the French Foreign Legion in the summer of 2014 during France’s military intervention in Central African Republic. At first, the legionnaires were wary of yet another ...

More than just a fixture in movies from the 30's and 40's, according to journalist William Langewiesche, the French Foreign Legion has seen more continuous fighting than any other military outfit in ...

French Foreign Legion sniper Scott Yingling remembers the Ametettai Valley as a place of dust, rock, sleepless fear, and sudden violence, where one confirmed shot at 1,600 meters became only one small ...

This report, first posted at TomDispatch.com, comes from historian and retired Lieutenant Colonel William J. Astore: A leaner, meaner, higher tech force — that was what George W. Bush and his ...

French photographer Edouard Elias has won this year’s Rémi Ochlik Award, which comes with a 8,000 Euro cash prize. Named after a photographer who was killed in a rocket attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, ...

What drives a man to fight and die for a country not his own? Jean-Vincent Blanchard takes up this question in his lyrical, detailed history of the French Foreign Legion. His book chronicles the ...

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President Zelenskyy has set up the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine for those who wish to volunteer – including U.S. citizens. To take advantage of that support, Ukrainian President ...