Ivory Coast Troops Attack French Force
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Description: At least nine French soldiers and one US citizen die in Ivory Coast after an attack blamed on Ivory Coast government troops.
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French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after Ivory Coast warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike -- mayhem that threatened to draw ...
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France yesterday sent a further 300 troops to bolster a retaliation operation against the government of Ivory Coast after nine of its soldiers were killed in an air raid ordered
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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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Ivory Coast&#39;s army said today it had launched an attack on the rebel stronghold of Bouake in the north of the country. &quot;We have been operating in Bouake since this morning.
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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.
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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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Several people have died after shooting at an anti-French protest in Ivory Coast&#39;s commercial capital, Abidjan. Several witnesses told the BBC that French peacekeepers opened fire on a crowd of tens of thousands supporters of Ivorian government.
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France acknowledged Tuesday that its troops killed about 20 people, including civilians, during November clashes in Ivory Coast but insisted its soldiers had only acted in self-defense.
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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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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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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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Mobs using machetes in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, conducted house-to-house searches Sunday to find and attack French citizens and steal their property.
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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 soldiers armed with machine guns and backed by armored vehicles deployed to major junctions in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan on Sunday following attacks on French citizens by mobs of militant youths.
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Loud explosions rocked Ivory Coast's  main city of Abidjan early on Sunday and heavy gunfire could be  heard as thousands of anti-French demonstrators marched toward  a French military base.
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France sent 600 more troops to Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abijan, as mobs rampaged against French expatriates.