The overnight operation involving some 50 troops and at least five helicopters to free the intelligence agent, with the alias of Denis Allex, was launched by elite forces from the DGSE secret service, ...

It's not clear whether a French intelligence agent is dead or alive after a botched rescue attempt in Somalia on Saturday morning. As the AP reports: "France says the agent, code-name Denis Allex, was ...

The Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab says it has killed French intelligence agent Denis Allex in retaliation for a failed French operation to free him. The French government has said it believes Mr ...

Shabaab has released a video of Denis Allex, one of two French security personnel kidnapped by the group from a hotel in Mogadishu last year. From Reuters: In the video, Allex repeats those demands ...