Ivory Coast Warplanes Bomb Rebel City
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Ivory Coast warplanes bombed the largest city of the rebel-held north in wave after wave of attacks Thursday, breaking a more than year-old cease-fire in the civil
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US warplanes bombed rebel targets in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday in an intensifying air campaign before an expected all-out offensive.
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Ivory Coast's rebels pledged on Monday to drive President Laurent Gbagbo's army back to the main city Abidjan if it attacks their territory again, raising the specter of all-out war in the West African country.
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DAKAR, Senegal Nov. 6 - In a swift and alarming escalation of the war in Ivory Coast, aerial bombings by two government warplanes killed eight French peacekeepers, as well as an American citizen, on Saturday
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ABIDJAN, Nov 6  - The Ivory Coast government carried out a devastating air raid on a French army camp Saturday killing eight soldiers, prompting French President Jacques Chirac to order the destruction of all government planes involved in ceasefire
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Angry mobs in Ivory Coast have burned and looted in the country&#39;s largest city. The machete-wielding residents have also laid siege to French military base and are searching for French families.
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Ivory Coast's military killed nine French soldiers in a bombing raid on the rebel stronghold of Bouake on Saturday and opened fire on troops from the former colonial power in the main city of Abidjan.
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France deployed troops in the Ivory  Coast's main city on Sunday to protect its citizens from mob  violence which erupted overnight after French forces destroyed  most of the small West African nation's air force.
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&quot;Israel mercenaries assisting the Ivory Coast army operated unmanned aircraft that aided aerial bombings of a French base in the country,&quot; claimed
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - US warplanes bombed rebel targets in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Thursday in an intensifying air campaign before an expected all-out offensive.
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NIAMEY, Niger -- French troop reinforcements flew to the coastal city of Abidjan in riot-torn Ivory Coast yesterday amid rising concerns that the conflict between government and rebel forces was on the verge of spiraling out of control and could dramatically hurt its West African neighbors.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Government warplanes and  helicopter gunships pounded rebel-held towns in northern Ivory  Coast for a second day on Friday, fueling fears of a slide into  all-out war in the world's top cocoa grower.
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Ivory Coast rebels patrolled the empty  streets of their stronghold Bouake on Friday with machineguns  and rocket launchers, bracing for more attacks a day after  government warplanes bombed the northern town.
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Machete-waving mobs looted and burned in Ivory Coast's largest cities Sunday, laying siege to a French military base and searching house to house for French families after a day of ground and air clashes ...
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French forces destroy two Ivorian planes on the ground after an air strike kills eight French peacekeepers.
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Government planes in Ivory Coast bombed two rebel-held towns yesterday, ending a tenuous yearlong cease-fire and indicating a possible resumption of civil war.
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A Chadian rebel group claims to have shot down a military plane which was bombing their positions.