The 509th flew in C-47s over 1600 miles from England to seize y Airport in Oran, Algeria by parachute ... May 1947 in the Regular Army as Company A, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, and ...

Algeria’s powerful army chief is on a discreet but extraordinary official visit to Paris, the first by a top-ranked Algerian general since independence from France more than six decades ago.

Algeria’s army will not join the 2025 edition of the exercises due ... Israel’s participation involves 12 soldiers from the Golani infantry brigade, established in 1948. The Golani Brigade is ...

But, even in failing, Salan can seriously endanger France by releasing mutiny in the embittered French army in Algeria, which would conceivably spread to barracks in Metropolitan France and ...

Sixty-five years ago this month American paratroopers began their distinguished combat record when the 509th Parachute Infantry ... U.S. Army's first airborne combat jump near Oran, Algeria ...

Algeria’s defense spending is set to surge to a record 3.35 trillion dinars ($25.1 billion), one of the highest levels in the Middle East and North Africa, as the energy-rich OPEC member girds ...

Algeria’s government intends taking advantage of an oil and gas bonanza to more than double its spending next year, with the military, civil service and the jobless among the biggest ...

The Army is overstaffed with infantry and armor lieutenants and needs some of them who were commissioned in 2021 to move into combat-support jobs, service officials announced Tuesday. The service ...

The Lacerda All-Army Combatives Championship tests the Army’s top hand-to-hand fighters in their skills learned in the service’s Combatives Program, which is meant to improve soldiers ...

Standing tall in his ochre suit, the son of a militant who later became an officer in Algeria's National Liberation Army (ALN) was part of the delegation of around 20 Algerian local and ...