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 ...

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 ...

France's elite counter-terrorism teams are some of the finest in the world and have proven their abilities and bravery over decades of dangerous operations. Most notable of these teams is the ...

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 ...

The more than 230 passengers and crew aboard Air France Flight 8969 on December 24, 1994, were looking forward to a quick and uneventful flight from Algiers to Paris. Before they took off, four men ...

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 ...