Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now part of the investigation looking into the deadly ambush of the joint patrol of U.S. and Nigerien forces in Niger earlier this month, which took the lives of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A Defense Department investigation of a Special Forces mission in Niger last fall found widespread problems across all levels of the military counterterrorism operation, but focused in ...

PUYALLUP, Wash. — A Green Beret killed in a 2017 ambush by Islamic militants in Niger was awarded the Silver Star on Tuesday, the culmination of an about-face by the Army over the controversial ...

Giving some of the first public details about a firefight in the African nation of Niger that resulted in the deaths of four U.S. soldiers earlier this month, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford ...

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says an examination of U.S. military involvement around the world needs to be a part of the discussion around this month's fatal ambush of four U ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A 23-minute video that was used to brief members of Congress on the October 2017 Niger ambush that killed four US soldiers and ...

DAKAR, Senegal — 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 Faso, Niger’s ...