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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS — Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died. He was 100. The ...

Controversy swirled last night around a daring French commando raid on Somali pirates who had been holding a luxury French sailing cruise ship in the Indian Ocean. An hour after the pirates had ...

MOGADISHU (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 Qaeda-affiliated ...