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 war that split West Africa&#39;s one-time economic powerhouse.
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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast government forces carried out bombing raids of former rebels on the country&#39;s main northern town, Ivory Coast military officials told AFP.
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The UN says government air strikes on rebel-held territory in northern Ivory Coast is a "major violation" of a truce.
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Ivory Coast warplanes killed nine French soldiers on Saturday in a bombing raid during the fiercest clashes with rebels for 18 months and France hit back by destroying most of the West African country's small ...
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Loud explosions and gunfire rocked  Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro on Saturday and flames could  be seen rising from the presidential palace grounds where  government helicopter gunships are based, witnesses said.
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Government forces in Ivory Coast clash with former rebels for the first time in months, following air strikes.
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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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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - A rocket attack on Ivory Coast's prime minister has shaken the West African state's fledgling peace process but his rebel movement and the president vowed on Saturday to carry on reuniting the war-divided state.
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Eight French soldiers were killed when  Ivory Coast government warplanes bombed French positions in the  rebel-held town of Bouake on Saturday, a United Nations  official said.
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Angry mobs armed with machetes and clubs hunted foreigners through the streets of Ivory Coast&#39;s main cities yesterday to avenge the destruction of the country&#39;s air force by the French military.
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Ivory Coast on Sunday ordered a pullback from an offensive on the rebel-held north after France destroyed its airpower in a retaliatory strike which sparked mob attacks on French citizens and property.
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Sudanese warplanes have been bombing rebel positions in West Darfur, rebel commanders say.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian rebels said on Tuesday they shot down a government military plane with a captured ground-to-air missile in fighting near the eastern town of Abeche, which they briefly seized at the weekend.
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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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FRANCE was on the brink of war with one of its former African colonies last night after planes belonging to the Ivory Coast government bombed peacekeepers in the rebel-held north, killing nine French troops and an American citizen and wounding 23 French
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Ivory Coast government forces have resumed air strikes on former rebels, while political violence targeting opposition parties in Abidjan raised fears of fresh civil strife.
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In a swift and alarming deepening of the war in Ivory Coast, air strikes by two government attack jets killed nine French peacekeepers and a US civilian