A British veteran has been awarded France's highest honour for his service during World War Two. Dennis Smith, 98, from ...

France24 (Video) ‘Taken for delinquents’: The French fishers refusing to hand in WWII shells Posted: January 28, 2025 | Last updated: January 28, 2025 Nearly 30,000 tons of munitions were ...

In November, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced that French army bases were “incompatible ... who had fought on its side in World War II after they demanded fair pay and ...

Three years of war and hundreds of thousands of dead on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides have pushed the French army into rethinking its military strategy. The high-intensity conflict ...

On May 2, the Spanish people rose up against the French army in Madrid. By nightfall, 150 French soldiers were dead. The French retaliated, killing thousands of Spaniards. It was the start of a ...

Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military force in the 19th century.