The French colonial empire encompassed vast territories in northern, central, and western Africa, comprising 18 modern-day African countries. However, France's colonial policies were primarily driven ...

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...

"The undocumented are not welcome," says the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, considered the most radical in centrist Bayrou's government. The French Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau, ...

Several hundred documents and items revealing the names and other details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire is being added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. This latest ...

The US and South Korea just rewrote the rulebook on salvaging a downed F-35 ...

FRENCH EMPIRE: Prize to Nippon. 6 minute read. TIME. September 16, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... The French Colonial Government canceled military leaves, closed the port of Haiphong, ...

At the time of the war, Algeria was the crown jewel in France’s colonial empire, ... The crackdown by French colonial forces on Algerian independence activists the same day 79 years ago.

Modern Muslim tyrannies always lose. A one-by-one survey of five of the Muslim nations whose commonality is hating Israel: ...

The series of coups in Africa in nations of the former French colonial empire is unfolding amid a growing radicalization among workers and youth on the continent. After a decade of relentless NATO ...

In particular, the French colonial empire, spanning Africa and Southeast Asia, saw a significant expansion of hevea plantations at the expense of primary forests.

Algerian politicians have also sought financial reparations over French nuclear tests in the Sahara — and, most importantly, an official apology from France for colonial-era crimes.