This report, first posted at TomDispatch.com, comes from historian and retired Lieutenant Colonel William J. Astore: A leaner, meaner, higher tech force — that was what George W. Bush and his ...

More than just a fixture in movies from the 30's and 40's, according to journalist William Langewiesche, the French Foreign Legion has seen more continuous fighting than any other military outfit in ...

Suicide Squad, next summer’s supervillain movie featuring characters like the Joker, Harley Quinn, Rick Flagg and the Enchantress teaming up together in an insane task force, might not seem like it ...

Military service is often the chosen path of those with a patriotic calling. But for the men of the French Foreign Legion, the country they’re trained to fight and die for isn’t their own. Volunteers ...

Edouard Elias first embedded with the French Foreign Legion in the summer of 2014 during France’s military intervention in Central African Republic. At first, the legionnaires were wary of yet another ...

Scores of Japanese men have offered to fight in Ukraine’s defense against the Russian invasion. At least 70 men from Japan have volunteered to join Ukraine’s foreign legion as of Tuesday, a surprising ...

As soon as the French Foreign Legion moved in this summer, some of the men climbed on the roof of the base headquarters and painted the force's Latin motto in big white letters. "Legio Patria Nostra." ...

Canjuers (France) (AFP) – The elite French Foreign Legion is preparing for security duty in Paris during this summer’s Olympic Games, a far cry from the group's previous deployments to places like the ...

What drives a man to fight and die for a country not his own? Jean-Vincent Blanchard takes up this question in his lyrical, detailed history of the French Foreign Legion. His book chronicles the ...

French photographer Edouard Elias has won this year’s Rémi Ochlik Award, which comes with a 8,000 Euro cash prize. Named after a photographer who was killed in a rocket attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, ...