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    The GIGN (French: Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale pronunciation; transl. "National Gendarmerie Intervention Group") is the elite police...
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  • tactical units in a secondary role. Helicopter support for GIGN and RAID Groupe interarmées d'hélicoptères (GIH). A joint army/air force helicopter unit...
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  • Dissuasion ("Search, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence"), commonly abbreviated RAID (/reɪd/; French: [ʁɛd] ), is an elite tactical unit of the French National...
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  • Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar on January 6, 2015. "Neutralisation d'un groupe armé terroriste au Mali par une opération conjointe des forces maliennes...
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    The Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic (French: Groupe de sécurité de la présidence de la République, GSPR) is the protective security unit...
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  • The Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French: Groupe Islamique Armé; Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية المسلّحة, romanized: al-Jamāʿa al-ʾIslāmiyya al-Musallaḥa)...
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    The Special Intervention Group (French: Groupe d'Intervention Spécial, GIS) is a tier one special forces unit created in Algeria in 1987, initially with...
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    sent to Auschwitz. Drancy is also where the Jewish children captured in a raid of a children's home in Izieu were sent before being shipped to Auschwitz...
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  • 2024). "RCA : les instructeurs russes et les Faca libèrent 14 enfants du groupe terroriste LRA". Retrieved 2024-07-12. "Letter dated 5 June 2024 from the...
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  • The raid on Dioura was an attack on a Malian military base in the town of Dioura, Mali, by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) on March 17, 2019...
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