More French troops are being deployed to the conflict-riddled Central African Republic in response to a rising sectarian clash, according to French President Francois Hollande. Hollande plans to send ...

France has been reviewing its military doctrine in Africa, with a new emphasis on multilateralism. But events in Chad suggest unilateral action remains on the table. For decades France viewed ...

UN peacekeepers patrol the streets of Kidal in Mali. Photo by Sylvain Liecht for MINUSMA Thirteen French troops were killed in a midair collision between two helicopters in Mali on Monday night as ...

France has clarified that its military personnel are in the Democratic Republic of Congo to train members of the country's armed forces, following speculation sparked by images of soldiers wearing ...

He is expected to go to Mali where about 1,000 soldiers are based as part of Paris’ West African counter-terrorism force. President Emmanuel Macron will visit French troops in Africa on Friday, a ...

FARDC Congolese government troops patrol near Minova Congo, some 40 mms south-west of Goma, Thursday Nov. 29, 2012.

PARIS (Reuters) - French magistrates have dismissed a case brought against a group of French soldiers accused of sexually abusing children while on deployment in the Central African Republic in ...

French forces' 1944 massacre of African World War II troops demanding pay in Senegal was "premeditated" and covered up, with previous death tolls vastly underestimated, according to a paper submitted ...