"US Forces are in Niger to provide training and security assistance to the Nigerien Armed Forces, in their efforts to counter violent extremist organizations in the region," the Africa Command said. The nine-minute video is shot from the helmet cams of the tragic Americans. soldiers in early October, here’s a timeline on. ISIS has released a horrific video appearing to show the final moments of four US soldiers who were ambushed in Niger. As questions continue to mount about the Niger firefight that killed four U.S. The report confirmed the little-known presence of US troops in the turbulent area, part of the poor and politically fragile Sahel where jihadist groups are mounting an insurgency. Niger ambush killed four US soldiers: Timeline of what we know.
The two wounded US soldiers were evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where they are in "stable condition," the African Command said. The nationality of the fourth person killed was not given. The slain soldiers were not identified, but media reports say they were Green Beret special forces in Niger to train local forces. That put the attack on the border with Mali, where violent jihadist groups are known to operate. The government called it a 'barbaric attack', the AFP news agency says. A supply convoy escorted by the army travelling to the northern town of Djibo, was targeted in an ambush on Monday. The attack took place approximately 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Niamey in southwest Niger, the US Africa Command said in a statement from its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Eleven soldiers have died and 50 civilians are missing in Burkina Faso following a suspected jihadist attack, the government says. The Pentagon said two other US soldiers were wounded in the attack which took place while they were assisting Nigerien counter-terror operations in the troubled area. It is not clear why the release of the video - via an. Three US soldiers and one from another nation were killed when a joint US-Niger patrol was ambushed near the border with Mali in southwest Niger, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. The Islamic State (IS) group has published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October.
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