The foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will visit Moscow this week as the Sahel nations and Russia seek to ...

Claim: Recent reports circulating on social media claim that Niger has withdrawn from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a regional military coalition fighting terrorism in the Lake Chad ...

Kyiv launched a rapid and largely successful counteroffensive in fall 2022 that peeled back Russia's grip on the northeast ...

A new phase of rapprochement has begun between the United States and Russia, marked by a phone call that lasted over an hour and a half between U.S. President ...

Niger's military ruler Abdourahamane Tchiani, who seized power in 2023, is now Niger's president. During his inauguration in ...

NIAMEY, Niger — Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was sworn in Wednesday as the country’s president for a ...

Abdourahamane Tchiani, Niger's junta leader, was sworn in as president for a five-year transition. This period challenges regional efforts to restore democracy following a coup in 2023. The charter ...

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

Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) launched a deadly attack on a military base in Chetima Wango, located in Niger’s Diffa region, early Monday morning, killing one soldier ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's air base at Hmeimim in Syria is sheltering about 9,000 people seeking refuge from a wave of sectarian violence, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on ...

Russia is sheltering at its Hmeimim military air base in western Syria more than 8,000 Syrians who fled a wave of sectarian mass killings, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman said Thursday. "The ...

The Russians have maintained a significant presence at their two military bases, especially at Hmeimim. Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, has confirmed at least 37 flights by large ...