A Bronze Star posthumously awarded to Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black was upgraded to the Silver Star earlier this year.

Black, 35, was a medical sergeant assigned to the Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group when he was killed Oct. 4, 2017, during an enemy attack in Niger, West Africa that also ...

Black and other Green Berets with Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces ... us.” In 2022, the body camera footage of the fight was recovered from Islamic militants killed in Niger ...

Following in the footsteps of its Ottoman forefathers, Ankara sees Africa as a core part of its global political and economic ...

ambush near Tongo Tongo in the West African nation of Niger. Black, 35, was a Green Beret with the 3rd Special Forces Group from Fort Bragg, one of 11 American soldiers on a patrol with 30 ...

NIAMEY, March 30 (Reuters) - Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad ... and traffickers. But the army has little control over large parts ...

The two countries must cooperate to stop Boko Haram from taking advantage of open borders to revive their operations ...

France was recently asked to leave Chad, and its relations in central and West Africa are increasingly weak. With Russian ...

Niger's junta staged a coup in 2023 and ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. Like military rulers in Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger authorities went on to kick out French and other European forces and ...

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For many years, white activists, including US President Donald Trump’s billionaire special ... to malign South Africa, hinder its progress and while doing so strengthen forces against racial ...