PARIS, April 10 -- The French president, Jacques Chirac, today welcomed the fall of Saddam Hussein but voiced no second thoughts about his outspoken opposition to the U.S.-led war that toppled the ...

PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac said Monday that France was prepared to veto the U.S.-backed resolution on Iraq if necessary, joining Russia in saying it would vote against giving Saddam Hussein a ...

Jacques Chirac isn’t looking for a ladder to climb down from his opposition to a military intervention in Iraq. In fact, he’s offering George W. Bush a ladder to climb down from the brink of conflict.

The U.S.-British resolution on postwar Iraq gives an "insufficient" role to the United Nations in rebuilding the country, French President Jacques Chirac said Monday. But France remains "convinced it ...

PARIS, March 5 -- As the Iraq crisis moves closer to war, France finds itself fighting a battle that officials see as far more important than what happens to a dictator in Baghdad. The issue now is ...