An ambush by a "group of criminals" killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the border with Burkina Faso this week, Niger's ruling military junta said. An intervention unit was sent to the west ...

and a Nigerien interpreter in an ambush by Islamist militants. It is why foreign aid makes up 40 percent of Niger’s budget. It is also why the Boss, while dispersing West Africans across the ...

A report on the 2017 Niger ambush released recently by the Pentagon concluded that poor training, complacency and excessive risk led to the Ill-fated mission. We spoke with two veterans about the ...

NIAMEY, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Niger's Defense and Security Forces (FDS) has said it lost five soldiers on Feb. 19 in a terrorist ambush in Sakoira in the country's western region of Tillabery.

KADUNA—Soldiers of 1 division, Nigerian Army under Sector 4, Operation Fasan Yamma, have neutralised three Violent Extremists and Insurgents (VEIs) in an ambush at an area near Ngwagi Hill ...

In Niger, at least 17 soldiers have been killed and 20 others injured in an ambush in a suspected terrorist attack near Koutougou. According to Niger Defense Ministry, soldiers were ambushed while ...

Landlocked Niger is governed by a junta that seized power in a July 2023 coup, vowing to restore stability and secure revenues from mining and oil resources. Yet unrest persists, with a surge in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been sent to hunt cattle rustlers in a border region near Burkina ...