France Says It Smashes Iraq Recruitment Ring
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France has smashed an underground Islamic  network recruiting French nationals to fight U.S. forces in  Iraq, a source close to the dossier said Tuesday.
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Foreign terrorists flooded into Iraq as instability grew after the toppling of Hussein and resentment toward the U.S. intensified, report says.
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Before the U.S. assault on Fallujah, France had found a channel for direct contacts with an Iraqi group thought to have taken two French reporters and their driver hostage, the driver's brother-in-law said ...
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The French foreign ministry declared Thursday the accusations made by the chief US weapon inspector in Iraq Charles Duelfer that Frenchmen took bribes in Iraq were not verified
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France dismissed accusations made in an official US report that French businessmen and politicians received bribes from Saddam Hussein in order to influence government policy on Iraq, with the foreign ministry describing them as &quot;unverified.&quot;
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The release of two French journalists held in Iraq reportedly failed after a group of Iraqis transporting them was bombarded by US forces.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (IPS) - France is coming under fire for its  heavy-handed  action in destroying virtually the entire air force of its   former colony C- te d'Ivoire in retaliation for the  killings of nine French  soldiers and a U.S. aid worker last  week.
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The French parliamentarian whose attempts to free two French hostages held in Iraq have provoked widespread official and media criticism hit back at attacks on his failed initiative.
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France's military said on Thursday it had  transported munitions to the Chadian government army, which  repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this month.
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Critics on Saturday blasted a proposal by conservative French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy to create an immigration ministry, comparing it an institution set up during the Nazi puppet regime of World War II.
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LONDON  - The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq mobilized Islamic extremists and made the world more dangerous, French President Jacques Chirac said, keeping up his vocal opposition to the war on the eve of a visit to London.
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The French government switched into crisis mode as efforts intensified to secure the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by Islamic militants demanding that Paris rescind a ban on headscarves in state schools.
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Iraq&#39;s US-backed government said that &quot;major neglect&quot; by its American-led military allies led to a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend.
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The French military said Friday that several dozen foreigners had been victims of assaults, rapes and attempted rapes during the mob violence in Ivory Coast.
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France frantically called on Arab leaders and Muslim religious leaders Wednesday to help save two journalists kidnapped in Iraq, setting in motion
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Iraq believes the weekend massacre of  49 army recruits could have been an inside job, a source close  to interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told Reuters Monday.
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The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq mobilized Islamic extremists and made the world more dangerous, French President Jacques Chirac said, keeping up his vocal opposition to the war on the eve of a visit to London.