"The French are extremely hard-nosed when it ... According to SpecWarNet, an online directory of global special forces, GIGN participated in "over 650 operations that freed over 500 hostages ...

GIGN, as the group is known, is the French police's elite counterterrorism ... difference between a Tier 1 and any other SOF [special-operations forces] unit," the retired Delta Force operator ...

Elite special forces are some ... It is against French law to publish pictures of their faces. One of the most extraordinary episodes in the GIGN's history was the seizure of the Grand Mosque ...

With fuel reserves running low, the plane could only get as far as Marseille, where the French special forces, the GIGN were ready. Thierry Leveque, a member of the GIGN described the scene ...

KNDS France Robotics announced a contract to deliver 10 NERVA-LG robotic systems to the US Special Forces ... elite units like France’s GIGN, the Canadian Armed Forces, and Shanghai’s ...

The member of the gendarmerie's GIGN, its elite tactical unit ... It said that the operation had been conducted jointly with French armed forces deployed in the territory. Macron had asked ...

PARIS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - France is sending police special forces to restore order in the French overseas territory ... would send about 50 members of the GIGN and RAID elite tactical forces ...