Special Operations

In 2010, in Nijrab, northeastern Afghanistan, Navy Special Forces men on a mission stumbled upon a veritable hornet's nest.

A few months after the liberation of the Ponant hostages, a retired French couple convoying a sailboat to Europe is taken hostage by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

On April 6, 2011, the men of the 1st Rpima and the 4th Rhfs, supported by the pilots of the 1st Rhc, carried out an extraordinarily daring operation to free the Japanese ambassador, who was being held hostage in his residence in Cocody by militiamen in the pay of Laurent Gbagbo.