MOGADISHU, Somalia -- 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 mud-caked ...

The French military had been tracking the gang of hostage-takers across the arid terrain of eastern Burkina Faso for days before deciding to launch the night-time rescue mission that would cost the ...

MOGADISHU, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A second French commando has died from wounds suffered during a failed attempt to rescue a French agent in Somalia held hostage by al Shabaab since 2009, the al ...

FRANCE — The Saudi land forces commandos and their French counterparts carried out field training within the Shumrukh 1 exercise in the French Alps. The participants carried out reconnaissance, ...

A French intelligence agent held hostage for over three years by Somali Islamists is presumed dead following a failed rescue operation by French commandos early Jan. 12, according to the French ...

The two French Special Forces soldiers Cedric de Pierrepont and Alain Bertoncello who were killed in a night-time rescue of four foreign hostages in an undated photo. (Reuters) French commandos ...