Ali Akbar of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, has been hawking newspapers in Paris’s Left Bank district for more than five decades.

Today in History for Nov. 1: In 1512, Michelangelo's paintings in the Sistine Chapel in Rome were first exhibited to the public. Across the ceiling he painted themes of the Bible, including ...

The French Foreign Legion offers a brutal clean slate: you hand over your name, your past, and your paperwork, and you get ...

Most Marines had never seen combat when Peter Ortiz joined the Corps in June 1942. However, he had already survived five years in the French Foreign Legion and fought in Africa, faced the Nazis in ...

The combat school in the rainforest. It‘s one of the toughest training programs run by the Foreign Legion. The soldiers camp in the rainforest, food is rationed and there are no sanitary facilities.

The reputation of the French Foreign Legion is both legendary and notorious. Every day, men from all over the world come to the legion's barracks in Aubagne. Often, they're looking for a second chance ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Thursday that France and its partners are working with the US and Arab states to implement the newly agreed ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. He said ...

Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar takes part in a press conference at the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria. Katharina Kausche/dpa Israeli Foreign ...

French-German national Lennart Monterlos, who was held in Iran on espionage charges since June, has been released from detention and returned safely to France, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said ...

BEIRUT — Clashes broke out this week between Syrian government forces and fighters in a camp in northern Syria’s Idlib province led by an internationally wanted French militant. The clashes come at a ...

An Iranian court has handed down lengthy jail sentences to two French citizens accused of spying for France and Israel. Cecile Kohler, 40, and her partner Jacques Paris, 72, are not named in the ...

The world has seen lots of talented and capable photographers throughout history. But not everyone’s work gets as much time ...