The attack happened in a region which draws visitors to the last giraffe herds in West Africa.

Two Malian militia groups say they have recovered a US military vehicle and weapons that jihadist fighters seized after a deadly ambush of American special forces in neighbouring Niger in October. The claim was made in a statement released on Wednesday by two armed groups, one of which in 2015 signed up to a peace […]

ISIS released a nine-minute, 17-second video online on Sunday showing the deaths of three American soldiers in the deserts of Niger in an ambush that took place last October.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Sgt. La David T. Johnson died in a hail of gunfire, hit as many as 18 times as he took cover in thick brush, fighting to the end after fleeing militants who had just killed three comrades in an October ambush in Niger, The Associated Press has learned.

La David Johnson was found with his arms tied being his back and a major wound in the back of his head, indicating he may have been captured and executed in Niger last month, The Washington Post reported, citing local villagers.

The military operation that left four US commandos dead in Niger was actually a mission to capture or kill a jihadist leader, not a routine reconnaissance patrol as asserted by the Pentagon, ABC News reported Thursday. The target of the October 3-4 overnight operation was a jihadist leader — known locally as Dandou — linked […]

By Tim Cocks and Absoulave Massalatchi NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger has asked the United States to start using armed drones against jihadist groups operating on the Mali border, raising the stakes in a counterinsurgency campaign jolted by a deadly ambush of allied U.S.-Nigerien forces. On Oct. 4, Islamist militants with sniper rifles and rocketpropelled grenades […]

US officials said three US Army special operations commandos were killed Wednesday and two others were wounded when they came under fire in southwest Niger.

Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou said Saturday that he would not amend the constitution to allow him to seek a third term after his second and final mandate ends in 2021. “One of my greatest ambitions is to organise free and transparent elections in 2021 and pass the baton to another Nigerien whom the Nigeriens will […]

Comptroller of Immigration in the state, Ezekiel Kaura, who paraded the illegal aliens before journalists at the state office in Minna yesterday, said the raid was occasioned by the general elections coming up across the country from tomorrow. He said …