American military historian and author of “The French Foreign Legion” Douglas Porch told USA TODAY the photo was taken of the French Foreign Legion during the Algerian War. Porch pointed to a ...

PARIS, May 2 (Reuters) - A soldier from the French foreign legion died in a military hospital near Paris on Friday after being wounded in an explosion in Mali last week in what the French ...

A member of the French Foreign Legion salutes American soldiers as they march by during a parade June 4, 2014, in the streets of Carentan, France. The parade was part of the commemorative 70th ...

Social media and military web forums are filled with ... fled the country and secretly enlisted in the elite French Foreign Legion under an assumed name, authorities said. He deployed numerous ...

Here’s how to enlist. It feels like an anachronism, but the French Foreign Legion—the legendary last-stop military brigade for disgraced officers, French criminals, desperate foreigners ...

The Legion is backed up by Interpol, foreign embassies and French intelligence services ... an association defending soldiers’ rights. “These men have no legal existence.

Run by the elite French Foreign Legion, the French Desert Commando Course usually hosts French soldiers and commandos who are going to fight Islamist extremists in the Sahel. But on occasion ...

PARIS, Oct. 13 -- France's supporters of old-line military values expressed shock Friday at two searing developments. The French Foreign Legion, which for 170 years served as a bastion of male ...

Officers guide soldiers of the Foreign Legion as they ... (AP Photo/Michel Euler) The "Légion étrangère," or French Foreign Legion, is perhaps the world's most famous – and infamous ...

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