French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed the release of French-Israeli hostage Mia Shem, while saying his country was working towards the liberation of all remaining hostages in Gaza.
The French defence ministry has denied the findings of a UN investigation into an air strike in central Mali in January, which concluded that French aircraft had killed 19 civilians.
French forces "tortured and murdered" Algerian freedom fighter Ali Boumendjel during his country's war for independence, President Emmanuel Macron admitted on Tuesday, officially reappraising a death that was covered up as a suicide.
An Austrian man who fled the Nazis with his family during World War II has bequeathed a large part of his fortune to the French village whose residents hid them from persecution for years.
French President Emmanuel Macron has ruled out issuing an official apology for abuses in Algeria, his office said on Wednesday, ahead of a major report on how France is facing up to its colonial past in the country.
France paid tribute to a six-year-old boy regarded as its youngest resistance hero in French history on Wednesday as part of the nationwide Armistice Day ceremonies in memory of those who died in World Wars I and II.
Exactly 100 years ago on Wednesday, the bodies of two nameless soldiers taken from the quagmire of the Western Front - one French and one British - were honoured simultaneously at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and in London's Westminster Abbey.
One of three remaining fighters in the French resistance to the Nazi occupation of World War II has died, President Emmanuel Macron's office said Friday, hailing a "hero" who was just 17 when he joined the fight to free France.
The son of a French soldier who was killed during World War II after being forced to fight for the Nazis has filed a complaint against Germany, demanding the same compensation as orphans of German soldiers.
As the world marks 75 years since the D-Day landings in Normandy, one French abbey is again the scene of grisly battlefield surgery, writes Hannah Mermin.
A US veteran who was parachuted into France during D-Day in 1944 defied his age on Wednesday as he recreated his courageous feat of 75 years ago as part of ceremonies to mark the famous landings.
Bill Sisk was 17 years old when he stormed Utah Beach in Normandy on D-Day and 18 when he witnessed firsthand the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, but the former GI wouldn't call himself a hero.
In towns and villages across the country, the French will turn out on Wednesday, May 8th to celebrate the end of World War II and to honour those who died in the conflict that left much of Europe in ruins.
A painting stolen from the family of art collector Adolphe Schloss during the World War II occupation of France will be returned to his descendants in New York, the French consulate said in a statement.
A plan to construct several wind turbines on the site of a World War One battlefield in northern France where the remains of thousands of Australian soldiers lie has caused concern in Canberra.
France and Canada on Saturday commemorated the 1942 raid on Dieppe in which thousands of Canadian troops were killed, wounded or captured, a fiasco that provided a vital lesson for the Normandy landings two years later.
Fancy buying a World War II tank? Then you need to go to a museum in Normandy, France, which is closing its doors and selling off its entire collection.
The French president heads to Washington on Tuesday to hold talks with President Barack Obama as he seeks to build a coalition for his war on terror against Isis.
November 11th is a national holiday in France, but what does the end of the First World War mean to the French today? The Local takes a look at what 'Le Jour du Souvenir' means nearly a century on.
Access to the port of Calais in northern France was closed on Sunday as demining teams prepared to defuse several World War II bombs discovered during construction work.
France presented 19 of Britain's famous "Chelsea Pensioners" with the Legion d'Honneur at a ceremony in London on Thursday, recognising their role in liberating France during World War II.
President Francois Hollande laid a wreath at the tomb of an unknown soldier at a solemn ceremony under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday after urging citizens not to grow complacent about war.
