Ivory Coast Army Kills 8 French Troops, Injures 23
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Ivory Coast warplanes killed eight  French soldiers and wounded 23 when they bombed a French base  in the rebel-held north on Saturday.
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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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A French military group has filed a lawsuit against Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo over the deaths of nine French peacekeepers who were killed by an Ivorian air strike.
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France sent 600 more troops to Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abijan, as mobs rampaged against French expatriates.
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France deployed troops in Ivory Coast's  main city on Sunday to protect its citizens from mob violence  which erupted after French forces destroyed most of the West  African nation's small air force.
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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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French troops traded fire with gunmen  who attacked them in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, the  French army said -- the latest challenge to peacekeepers  shoring up a peace deal in the divided West African country.
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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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France sent hundreds more troops to the Ivory Coast commercial capital of Abidjan on Sunday, as government loyalists went on a violent rampage taking aim at the
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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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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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PARIS, Nov 7  - France&#39;s military chief said on Sunday that his troops may have killed or wounded people during recent clashes with anti-French demonstrators in Ivory Coast.
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French troops killed about 20 people in  Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense  Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the  French military's handling of the crisis.
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France readied a U.N. resolution  that seeks an arms embargo on the Ivory Coast after nine French  soldiers and an American civilian were killed in a government  bombing raid.
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French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after government warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike -- mayhem that threatened to draw foreign ...
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A French soldier walks past signs at the nearly empty check-in area of the Abidjan, Ivory Coast, airport on Monday, Nov. 15, 2004.
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France has ordered more troops to Ivory  Coast to protect French citizens after nine French soldiers and  a U.S. aid worker were killed in a government bombing raid and  Ivory Coast troops fired on French forces.