The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

She was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone, in Indochina and Algeria. She was also the first Frenchwoman ...

Valérie André, a French military officer, brain surgeon, and licensed pilot who was believed to be the first woman to fly helicopter rescue missions in combat zones — during the French-Indochina war ...

Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died.

Her flight log quickly filled with hundreds of casualty evacuations, first in the Vietnamese theater and later in Algeria." Known as "Madame Ventilator," she left for the war during the French ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

To say that Algeria is alarmed by the return of war to its Sahelian borders would ... because we knew he was in Algeria," agreed one French soldier who took part in Operation Barkhane.

The Algerian war used to be waged between the French army and Moslem rebels fighting for independence. It has cost the lives of 18,000 French soldiers and an estimated 360,000 Moslems. Two million ...

Valérie André, a French military ... to put down Algerian anti-colonial fighters who would later, in 1962, win and gain their independence from France. By the end of the war, she had completed ...