The U.S. will remove all its forces and equipment from a small base in Niger this weekend and fewer than 500 remaining troops will leave a critical drone base in the West African country in August, ahead of aSept. 15 deadlineset in an agreement with the new ruling junt...
Niger's decision to kick out American forces dealt a blow to U.S. military operations in the Sahel, a vast region south of the Sahara desert where groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group operate. Protesters hold up a sign demanding that U.S. troops leave Niger immediately ...
They are quite firm in their view of how they want to proceed, and it does not comport with the Constitution of Niger," Nuland said. "It was difficult today and I will be straight up about that." Nuland spoke two hours with Barmou and his team and there ...
the spokesperson said after afp reported that niger had given the u.s. ambassador 48 hours to leave the african country. the united states has been pressing for a diplomatic resolution of the crisis that erupted on july 26 when niger military officers seized power, deposed president mo...
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"The U.S. military does not leave its troops behind, and I'd just ask not question the action of the troops that were put in the firefight and question," he said. "Don't question if they did everything they could in order to bring everyone else out at once and don't confuse your...
Following the death of four US Special Forces soldiers in Niger on October 4, US Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, made an ominous declaration to a Senate committee: these numbers are likely to increase as the US is expanding its military activities in Africa. Mattis, like other defense off...
France, for its part, sensed the US impasse in Afghanistan and thus withdrew its troops at the end of 2012 after losing 89 of its own and spending nearly €500m that year. However, it must now apply its own principles in the Sahel; the very ones I defended in Kabul ...
I was doing a big clean-up recently and my kids were helping. One of my sons 1 a knotted handkerchief with an old dark brown coin inside, which immediately 2 me of another time. In 1991,I had spent five months in Niger,a hot African country. The climate and begg...
But relations have frayed between Niger and Western countries since mutinous soldiersousted the country's democratically elected presidentlast July. Niger's junta has since told French forces to leave and turned instead to Russia for security. Earlier this month, Russian military trainers arrived to ...