Ivory Coast Army Kills 8 French Troops
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Ivory Coast's military killed eight  French soldiers in a bombing raid on the rebel-held 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 sent reinforcements to Ivory Coast on Sunday after a bloody and confusing weekend ended with the small Ivorian air force shattered and thousands of angry people attacking French nationals and other foreigners, sometimes pulling them from their
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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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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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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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Ivory Coast says 63 people have been killed in a week of clashes with French troops as it hands over military powers to a former head of its northern command, whose appointment is considered a provocation by both the rebels and France.
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Eight Thai soldiers are killed in an attack by suspected Muslim rebels in the violence-hit south, the army says.
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France acknowledges that its troops in Ivory Coast killed about 20 people during anti-French protests.
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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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French forces destroy two Ivorian planes on the ground after an air strike kills eight French peacekeepers.
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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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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 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 foreign ...
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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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Ivory Coast accuses French troops of killing 30 unarmed civilians to avenge the death of nine French peacekeepers.
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Elite troops kill eight kidnappers during fierce gunfight in south-west of the country.
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French forces wiped out Ivory Coast&#39;s military aircraft in retaliation for the killing of nine of its soldiers stationed here, as anti-French feeling reach boiling point in the west African former French colony.