The United States has begun talks ... from the Pentagon and U.S. Africa Command to participate in the discussions. The presence of U.S. forces in Niger seemed to be coming to a close since last ...

Body camera footage from a Green Beret killed in a 2017 ambush in Niger has led the Army for the second time to award the ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

One of the U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers killed during the Oct. 4, 2017 ambush in Niger has been posthumously honored for ...

More so, it was never widely conveyed, at least publicly, that Special Forces would ... that for five years Niger has been a toe in the expanding American footprint in Africa, and has become ...

Tchiani, an army veteran ... stints in power in Africa’s junta-led countries, including Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso. Like military rulers in Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger authorities also ...

1st Class Jeremiah Johnson, was one of four U.S. special ... Niger on October 4, 2017, when Islamist fighters ambushed their team. The clash near Tongo Tongo was the deadliest for U.S. forces in ...

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five ...

Tchiani, an army veteran ... partners. Niger’s junta had initially proposed a three-year transition period right after the coup, but that was rejected by West Africa’s regional bloc known ...

There are lessons for the larger Joint Force and Pentagon, officials said. US Special Operations Forces know how to get new technologies and weapons to the warfighter quickly, and there are ...