French Troops Battle Ivory Coast Forces
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French defense minister Michelle Alliot-Marie addresses reporters on the steps on the defense ministry in Paris Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004, after eight French soldiers were killed and 23 wounded in Ivory Coast
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French peacekeeping troops exchanged  fire with gunmen who attacked them as they traveled in a convoy  of armored vehicles in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, a  French army spokesman said.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Ivory Coast forces will immediately pull back from front lines, the presidential spokesman said Sunday, after a day of clashes with French peacekeepers that left the West African nation&#39;s air force in shreds.
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France dispatched another 600 troops Sunday to help calm the volatile situation in the Ivory Coast, where French forces, deployed to enforce a shaky cease-fire, and ordinary civilians have been the targets of violence.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Hostilities escalated yesterday, a day after army hard-liners broke a cease-fire and relaunched Ivory Coast&#39;s civil war.
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Ivory Coast's army launched its first  land attacks against a rebel-held zone in the north of the  country, France Info radio said on Friday without giving  details.
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Hundreds of protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at French gendarmes in a rebel-held Ivory Coast town on Saturday, demanding the former colonial power intervene after government planes bombed rebel positions.
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Eight French peacekeepers were killed and 23 wounded yesterday in an attack by the Ivory Coast military on a rebel region after a ceasefire collapsed in the war-torn west African nation.
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France sent reinforcements to Ivory Coast and deployed armoured vehicles and helicopter gunships as French troops used tear gas and concussion grenades to quell an explosion of violence in its former West African colony.
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French troops in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan fired into the air on Monday to disperse thousands of demonstrators massing to support the West African country's President Laurent Gbagbo.
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THOUSANDS of machete-wielding thugs looted and set fire to French targets in Ivory Coast yesterday after France responded with force to the killing of nine of its peacekeepers and an American missionary.
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Chadian troops fight a fierce battle with rebels in the east of the country with reports of heavy casualties.
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Abidjan - Ivory Coast said 63 people were killed in a week of clashes with French troops as it prepared on Friday to pass control of the military to hawkish Major Colonel Philippe Mangou.
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Ivory Coast accuses French troops of killing 30 unarmed civilians to avenge the death of nine French peacekeepers.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (11/17/2004) - French media reported on Wednesday that Israelis assisted the Ivory Coast army in its attacks on French military bases in the African nation in which nine French peacekeepers and one US aid worker were killed.
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In a swift and alarming deepening of the war in Ivory Coast, airstrikes by two government attack jets killed nine French peacekeepers and a US civilian on Saturday afternoon near the northern town of Bouake.
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Nine French peacekeepers were killed during an air raid by Ivorian bombers more than a week ago. France responded by destroying most of the Ivorian air force.