The frequent utterance of the word GIGN in Ad Vitam has made fans curious to know its meaning. Directed by Rodolphe Lauga, the Netflix movie features Franck Lazarev on a challenging quest to find his ...

The French National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) has ordered a new standard issue weapon. It has selected the Bren 2 assault rifle from Czech company CZ. The company told Shephard at the ...

Friday's standoff against the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo terror attack and an apparent ally in France ended with all three dead, as well as at least four hostages ...

On December 24, 1994, Air France Flight 8969 was set for a routine flight from Algiers to Paris. Instead, the passengers and crew spent three days as the hostages of Islamist extremists. They were ...

It's been an eventful year already for France's special police units. Three separate "intervention" teams have been called to action since the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

NEAR DIJON, FRANCE — The assault team advanced in a line, stacked up behind the point man. He was carrying a 60-pound shield capable of stopping rounds from a Kalashnikov-style assault rifle, equipped ...

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 ...

PARIS, May 8 (Reuters) - Around 50 khaki-clad men riding atop a black armoured truck approached an abandoned office building on the outskirts of Paris one spring morning and blew open a second-storey ...

The frequent utterance of the word GIGN in the recently released Netflix film Ad Vitam has made fans curious to know its meaning. Directed by Rodolphe Lauga, the movie features Franck Lazarev on a ...