FILE - French WWII veteran of the Commando Kieffer Leon Gautier attends a ceremony in tribute to the 177 French members of the "Commando Kieffer" Fusiliers Marins commando unit who took part in the ...

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Currently, the force has 121 commandos, and a decision to further strengthen the unit has been taken in view of the strategic importance of the Islands, they said. Recently, DGP HGS Dhaliwal ...

Na koi aahat, na koi chaya, na koi sanket, na koi kaya? main kaal nahi, kaal ka vidhaan hu? Bhairav naam nahi pehchaan? Shatru ke anth ka thos parinam? Bhairav-naam nahi parinaam.” Bearing these ...

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German defense minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer disbanded a special forces unit specializing in anti-terrorism after learning 20 of its members were being investigated for far-right extremism, ...

MICHAEL WALZER is a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, co-editor of Dissent and author of Just and Unjust Wars, Revolution of the Saints and other works.

PARIS — Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died. He was 100. The ...