French President François Mitterrand congratulates GIGN agents who freed Air France Flight 8969, December 27, 1994.Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images On December 24, 1994, Air France Flight ...

As a Tom Clancy game, Rainbow Six Siege loves real-word military regiments. If they're not from the real world, they have no place in Rainbow Six. The latest real-world team that Ubisoft are showing ...

Elite French forces are leaving nothing to chance before the opening of the Paris Olympics on July 26. Facing a security situation described by the interior ministry as the most challenging in modern ...

April 27, 2017: In early 2017 the French GIGN (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale) ordered 68 customized (for commando operations) CZ 807 assault rifles form Czech company (Česká ...

NEAR DIJON, FRANCE — The assault team advanced in a line, stacked up behind the point man. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. He was ...

Two men tried to rob a McDonald's in eastern France — only to be violently thwarted by 11 off-duty French special forces commandos who were having lunch there, authorities said. Subscribe to read this ...

Bond girl Olga Kurylenko headlines '15 Minutes of War,' a French genre item from French-Canadian director Fred Grivois. By Boyd van Hoeij A bus full of French children is hijacked by ...

Instead, the passengers and crew spent three days as the hostages of Islamist extremists. They were freed in a raid that was caught on live TV and introduced France's elite GIGN to the world. The more ...