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  • US To Withdraw All Troops From Niger by September 15

    US troops ordered to leave Niger will complete the withdrawal by mid-September under an agreement reached in talks between US and Nigerien officials. The Pentagon released a joint statement with Niger’s Defense Ministry that said the two nations “have reached a disengagement agreement to effect the withdrawal of US forces, which has already begun. It … Continue reading "US To Withdraw All Troops From Niger by September 15"

  • US military will complete withdrawal from Niger by mid-September: Pentagon

    U.S. troops ordered out of Niger by the West African country's ruling junta will complete their withdrawal by the middle of September, the Pentagon and Nigerien defense officials said Sunday. The timeline was the product of four days of talks between the countries' defense officials in the capital city of Niamey, according to a joint statement. Niger's decision to kick out American forces dealt a blow to U.S. military operations in the Sahel, a vast region south of the Sahara desert where groups...

  • US reaches agreement with Niger to withdraw military forces by September 15

    By Oren Liebermann and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN (CNN) — The US has reached an agreement with Niger to withdraw its military forces from the African nation by September 15, according to the US Defense Department and the Nigerien Ministry of National Defense. The newly agreed deadline gives the US four months to drawdown fewer than 1,000 troops