Paratroopers, assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, conducted bilateral training with the French 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment, French Foreign Legion, during Exercise Kepi Blanc, in Corsica.

It feels like an anachronism, but the French Foreign Legion—the legendary last-stop military brigade for disgraced officers, French criminals, desperate foreigners, and foolish adventurers ...

The ABC's Europe Correspondent Linton Besser recently caught up with the French Foreign Legion's elite paratrooper regiment as they trained in the mountains of Corsica, in the middle of the ...

It’s Earth’s version of taking the Black and heading for the Wall, the way Jon Snow does in Game of Thrones. Joining the French Foreign Legion granted men a safe haven for many for decades ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, French president at the time, reviews paratroopers from the 8th marine parachute regiment in Castres in August 2008. ... Is French Foreign Legion still an elite, ...

A former member of the French Foreign Legion has remarked, “predominantly it is composed of men of violence, bums, morons of vile habits and booty-hunting louts.” But La Légion Etrangère has ...

Created in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has evolved is now one of the most effective units in the French military and always getting picked for no-notice deployments in hot spots around the world.

Though not made for exclusively French Foreign Legion service, the MAT-49 was particularly well-suited to meet their needs. Small, light-weight, compact, and with a thirty-two-round magazine ...