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The French Armed Forces have also played a leading role in the ongoing UN peacekeeping mission along the Lebanon-Israel border as part of the cease-fire agreement that brought the 2006 Lebanon War to an end. Currently, France has 2,000 army personnel deployed along the border, including infantry, armour, artillery and air defence.
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (French: Armée de terre, lit. ' Army of Land '), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie. [3]
On 30 July, a French soldier was killed in a vehicle accident and a second soldier suffered injuries. This marked the ninth death among French soldiers killed in support of operations in Mali. The second in command of AQIM, Hacene Ould Khalill, was killed during a raid by French special forces near Tessalit in November 2013. [116]
French armed forces and police conducted simultaneous raids in Dammartin and Porte de Vincennes, killing all three attackers. After 12 January 2015 and for an indefinite period, as part of Operation Sentinelle , nearly 10,500 military personnel were deployed in France to secure 830 sensitive places (school, churches, press organizations, etc ).
The largest number of soldiers killed was when French troops were ambushed in the area of Sirobi, some 50 km (31 mi) east of Kabul, in August 2008. Ten French troops were killed and a further 21 wounded in the attack – the heaviest loss of troops France has suffered since deploying to Afghanistan in 2001.
The French took the brunt of the casualties among ISAF forces, with 10 dead—8 killed by bullets or shrapnel, one by a bladed weapon, and the last one in a road accident as he rode to the battle. 23 French and two Afghan ISAF soldiers were wounded.
It will equip all army soldiers and meet the overall objective of renewing the armed forces' "small equipment" in accordance with the 2019-2025 Military Programming Law. Ballistic vests; Gilet TIGRE France: Bulletproof vest: Former standard-issue bulletproof vest of the French Armed Forces. Some units still in service but mostly replaced by the ...
Armed Forces of the Philippines. Armed Forces of the Philippines: "Protecting the People, Securing the State" Philippine Army: "Serving the People, Securing the Land" 1st Infantry Division (Philippines): "Your Security, Our Mission, Community Development, Our Goal" 2nd Infantry Division (Philippines): "Advocates of Peace. Servants of the People.