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...
U.S. troops ordered out of Nigerby the West African country's ruling junta will complete their withdrawal by the middle of September, the Pentagon and Nigerien defense officials said Sunday. The timeline was the product of four days of talks between the countries' defense officials in the capi...
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The US is withdrawing its troops from Niger ahead of schedule with only 300 soldiers left in the uranium and oil rich Sahel country. Niger ... Read More Africa UN Security Council, US warn of imminent ‘large-scale massacre’, ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s North DarfurMay 2, 2024 A seni...
soldiers were killed during an ambush in Niger, new details about how the events unfolded have emerged. A senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the event tells ABC News that the U.S. troops saw early warning signs that something was wrong as they went to meet with the village ...
However, that violent role has rapidly worsened during the first year of Trump’s term in office. Indeed, there is a hidden US war in Africa, and it is fought in the name of ‘counter-terrorism’. According to a VICE News special investigation, US troops are now conducting 3,500 ...
department official told CBS News in a statement that in a meeting Friday, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Nigerian Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine "committed today to initiate conversations in Niamey to begin planning an orderly and responsible withdrawal of U.S troops from Niger." ...
The killing of four American soldiers in Niger in October drew attention to the role of US troops in western Africa, where several terror networks roam freely. The United States has enemies all around in the region. Niger shares a border with Mali, where an al Qaeda affiliate and other Is...
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s military has detained a suspect who it believes could be the militant leader who was being pursued when an ambush left four American soldiers dead in October, the American ambassador said Tuesday. U.S. Ambassador Eric P. Whitaker told The Associated Press he ...