With our global leaders rushing to get ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, countries are experimenting with various solutions in order to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the virus. Across the ...

You may remember that a couple of years ago a unit of Spanish soldiers went viral when images appeared of them on Instagram and Twitter. Well, it happened again after new videos appeared on TikTok.

ELITE Spanish soldiers are being ordered to go on diets after many of them were deemed too overweight to fight. Some troops from the fearsome Spanish Legion have been offered a weight-loss plan to ...

One of the most iconic events of Holy Week in the Spanish city of Malaga is the transfer of a statue of Jesus Christ by the Spanish Legion, an elite unit of the country's armed forces. The ceremony ...

They are musclebound and tanned, with sage-green shirts open to the chest, bulges below their black leather belts, and chinstraps curiously slung along their chiselled jaws. They are the elite troops ...

Although Spain founded a Foreign Tercio in 1920 imitating the French Foreign Legion, later renamed Spanish Legion, there were some years in which France transferred theirs to the Spanish government.

ALMERIA, Spain - Even though 1st Lt. Brenton Westbrook had never worked with the Spanish Legion he knew there were challenges to face. "It's going to be a learning experience," Westbrook said. The ...

The fierce reputation of Spanish Legion soldiers is being put to the test: too fat, some of them have been offered a weight-loss plan to save the "prestige" of the force. All legionnaires of this ...

You are in: North Yorkshire > History > Archaeology > Roman York's Spanish connection Modern day shields of the Legio IX Hispa By Mike Griffiths Thanks to the Romans, York and Spain have a connection ...