Col. Joshua Gaspard, commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, based in Vicenza, Italy. Learn more about exercises Swift ...

Over the course of the multi-week training cycle, French paratroopers were immersed in a series of ... expanding drone integration across its mechanized infantry, foreign legion, and special forces ...

The founder of France’s far-right National Front party has died at the age of 96. Jean-Marie Le Pen, a controversial figure in French politics, died on Jan. 7, 2025. His political career spanned ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party Front National, has died. He was 96. His family confirmed the news in a statement sent to the AFP and said he died “surrounded by his ...

Le Pen, a former French Foreign Legion paratrooper who served during Algeria’s war for independence and was accused of torturing detainees, embodied a radical far right. He was sued and fined ...

The paratrooper was previously deployed in ... Many of them have served in the French Foreign Legion. They come from Romania and Belarus. The RALF soldiers form a defensive ring around Goma ...

At the burial ceremony last week of ten Foreign Legion paratroopers killed in battle ... De Gaulle’s cherished bill to create a French nuclear force. Even the trial of the men who led last ...

Created specifically for French Special Forces and French Foreign Legion paratroopers fighting the second IndoChina War during the 1950s, the Vespa TAP ("Troupes Aéro Portées") carried a massive ...

For two days, the SAS man and another paratrooper carried their officer on a ladder ... being taken prisoner and escaping, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. However, he ended up being forced ...

Sergeant Matthew Reid has become the first Australian to ever complete the French Foreign Legion’s Jaguar Course. Find out how the demanding two month exercise pushed him to his limit.

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 ...