Peshmerga base near Erbil killed Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion, a 21-year veteran, and wounded six others. Paris ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The French military completed its withdrawal from Senegal on Thursday, the last West African country where it maintained a permanent troop presence, amid waning regional ...

The French army helps train African armed forces in environmental protection issues, organised in Gabon by the Academy for the Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources (APERN).

As a former defence adviser to the French government, Francois Heisbourg could be forgiven for relishing the idea that his ...

The French Navy will send eight frigates and two amphibious assault ships to the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea, joining ...

At the Cazaux airbase in southwestern France, fighter jets took off under unusual conditions this week as part of a major military exercise designed to test the French Air and Space Force's rapid ...

France on Thursday formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent army camps in either west or central Africa. Ending the French army's 65 years in ...

A drone strike killed a French soldier in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, France's armed forces ministry said on Friday, after President Emmanuel Macron confirmed the country's first military ...

VARCES, France (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday unveiled a new program meant to bolster France’s armed forces by training thousands of volunteers aged 18 and 19 starting next year, part of ...

France has been reviewing its military doctrine in Africa, with a new emphasis on multilateralism. But events in Chad suggest unilateral action remains on the table. For decades France viewed ...