France celebrated Bastille Day on Monday with parades, fireworks, and festivities. The holiday marks the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in the French Revolution. This year, ...

France’s foreign minister denounced spy charges reportedly being used to hold two French nationals in Iran for more than three years, saying the allegations are “unjustified and unfounded ...

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 ...

The Reluctant Recruit: Réalisé par Paul J. Smith. Avec Daws Butler, Grace Stafford. Woody wants to travel for free. He sees an ad for a recruitment office. Little does he know that the office belongs ...

The French Foreign Legion is regarded as the toughest army corps in the world. Its soldiers fight on the frontlines of France's wars.

The main feature of the Foreign Legion since its foundation is its multinational composition. Originally, recruitment was open to all men deemed fit for combat, aged between between 18 and 40 years ...

At Horcheim near Coblenz, the French opened a Foreign Legion recruiting station, invited German veterans between the ages of 19 and 35 to join up for service in Indo-China (war criminals and ...

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 ...

Canjuers (France) (AFP) – 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 ...

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 ...