The shadow vessel was first built in 2007 and had been anchored off the coast of western France for a number of days.

EADaily, October 4th, 2025. The capture of the tanker of the "shadow fleet" by the French special forces was a pure spectacle ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said the ship, anchored off the coast of Saint-Nazaire in western France, had committed ...

France's navy has detained two senior crew members of a tanker blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia's ...

On Sept. 16, 1776, musket balls tore through the air at Harlem Heights, New York, as Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton led his Rangers ...

France has detained two senior crew members of a tanker linked to Russia, which data showed was off the Danish coast last month during mysterious drone flights, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Later ...

President Donald Trump said Monday that French special forces had done a "great job" in freeing a group of kidnapped tourists in Burkina Faso last week, including an American woman. During a meeting ...

PARIS, (Reuters) - French special forces who rescued four people, including two French citizens, being held by militants in Burkina Faso on Friday had not been aware of the presence of the American ...

The French special forces, which had stormed in by land and by air, had come under fire in Gao from several terrorist elements that were later destroyed, the French military said in a statement on its ...

YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast, Sept. 25 -- Waving U.S. flags and shouting 'Vive la France!," American schoolchildren today escaped an Ivory Coast city under siege by rebels, as French troops moved in to ...

New research by Dr. Laure Humbert from The University of Manchester and Dr. Raphaële Balu from Sorbonne University has revealed how Britain's vital contribution to the French Resistance during the ...