is a former outpost of the French Foreign Legion. It served as a home away from home for some 2,000 American military men and women who were stationed in the Republic of Djibouti. They were there ...

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.

Nigel Kerr from Donaghadee served with the French Foreign Legion from 1986 to 1991 starting in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, and has remained part of the community after retirement. He said ...

Many great works of cinema have arrived as a result of French filmmakers. While the acclaimed directors ... Defined by his strict regimentation to the Foreign Legion, Galoup demands military ...

One rumor that spread this week suggested that France had already moved ahead with these plans, deploying secret French Foreign Legion troops. French President Emmanuel Macron meets with members ...

Now the Emirates want their own version of the French Foreign Legion. That may change how secret, private armies work in a legal grey zone. The ad was first discovered by French industry ...

Agence Rol/Bibliothèque nationale de France At the French War Veterans’ section of Flushing Cemetery in Queens, a small jazz band plays Django Reinhardt’s “La Marseillaise.” The modest pine coffin is ...

New Delhi: Ahead of the Republic Day celebrations, an officer in the French Foreign Legion, Captain Loic Alexandre, expressed his honour and pride in being here in India for the celebrations.

One morning early this summer a young French ... them with the Foreign Legion. At 21 he had been arrested by the Gestapo for wartime resistance and sent to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. He ...

Whether you’re looking for a career change or need a new identity after faking your own death, joining the French Foreign Legion might be the path for you. Founded in 1831 partly as a way to ...