Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. free french commandos On June 6, 1944, 177 members of Commando Kieffer landed on the Normandy shore designated “Sword Beach.” ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A raid to free a French intelligence agent held captive in Somalia for three years went horribly wrong, leaving 17 Islamists and at least one French commando dead in a ...

French commandos stormed a sailboat to free two French tourists who were being held by heavily-armed Somali pirates, President Nicolas Sarkozy has said. French commandos stormed a sailboat to free two ...

Allied troops stormed ashore at Normandy on June 6, 1944, beginning the long, bloody fight to retake Western Europe. Leon Gautier was one of the first French commandos to hit the beach, and the ...

This is the unbelievable moment the French Navy launched a high-stakes operation in the Mediterranean Sea — storming a giant Russian oil tanker suspected of running sanctions for Moscow’s war machine.

PARIS — Two French commandos were killed Friday in a military operation in the West African nation of Burkina Faso that freed four people, from the United States, France and South Korea, who were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US Army infantryman instructs another US soldier during an exercise to prepare the French Desert Commando Course, in Djibouti, ...

Reports from Somalia suggest French commandos have mounted an operation against a militant base in a bid to free a French hostage. Witnesses in Bulo Marer said they had heard a helicopter above the ...

BASTIA, Corsica – French police commandos swooped onto the deck of a ferry seized by striking unionized sailors in the Mediterranean Sea, recapturing the vessel Wednesday and steering it back toward ...

PARIS—The French former commando clutched an unusual package on an early-morning flight from Moscow to Paris in September, on a mission blessed by the Russian and French presidents. Stashed in Pierre ...

Several times every year, a few select US troops get to attend a very special course in the deserts of Africa. Run by the elite French Foreign Legion, the French Desert Commando Course usually hosts ...