French armed forces conducted a surprise military exercise in Estonia, deploying more than 100 paratroopers in the Baltic country that neighbors Russia, the French defense ministry said Wednesday.

For the first time, the French Navy has deployed the 101-meter-long intelligence ship Dupuy de Lôme to the Baltic Sea to monitor Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers. The mission’s goal is to ...

The irony that the U.S., as the 13 colonies, would not likely have attained its independence from Great Britain without French aid, and particularly from the French Navy, has remained in the air.

Two French Rafale jets intercepted a Russian Ilyushin Il-18 airliner off the coast of Estonia on Friday. ... It entered service with the French Navy in 2004 and with the French Air Force in 2006.

The French warship FNS Somme will arrive in Tallinn on Thursday, Aug. 31, and remain here for about a week. The Somme is scheduled to arrive in Tallinn’s Old City Harbor at 9 a.m. and will stay until ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) -- French armed forces conducted a surprise military exercise in Estonia, deploying more than 100 paratroopers in the Baltic country ...