The troops and equipment are expected to leave Niger "well before" the Sept. 15 deadline, according to the official. The Nigerian military first began efforts to have U.S. forces leave after a coup toppled the democratically elected president in July. It also ask...
US Troops Pull Out of Niger's Air Base 101 More NIAMEY (Reuters) - The U.S. military withdrew its personnel from Niger's Air Base 101 near the airport in the capital Niamey on Sunday, ahead of its exit from a major drone base near the desert city of Agadez in the coming weeks. Ni...
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 r...
How manyU.S. troopsare there in Niger? About 800, but the vast majority of them are construction crews working to build up a second drone base in Niger’s northern desert. The rest run a surveillance drone mission from Niger’s capital of Niamey that helps out the French in Mali and ...
A top Pentagon official says that the U.S. has not received a formal request from Niger’s junta to depart the country, saying instead it has received mixed signals on whether the hundreds of U.S. troops based there are no longer welcome.
US troops in Niger to set up drone baseBy JULIE PACEROBERT BURNS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has moved some troops onto an airbase in Niger where a small number of U.S. forces remain, but Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he doesn…
tells the AP. "But that has to go back to the secretary of defense to get an execute order."Additionally, the AP says that US troops will head specifically to Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger in order to prepare for any advances from al-Qaeda linked groups. Americans will also train and...
"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...
Washington’s position on Niger contrasts with that of Paris, which has been forced tosever tieswith the new regime led by General Omar Tchiani after it expelled France’s ambassador and ordered 1,500 French troops to leave. France does not recognise the military-led government, the National ...