Jihadists killed more than 70 soldiers during a three-hour assault on a camp in the country's Tillaberi region
Hundreds of jihadists on motorbikes and pickup trucks killed more than 70 soldiers in an attack on a military base in western Niger, the deadliest single Islamist attack on a country the West has cultivated as a bulwark against rising militancy across the Sahel.
The militants launched a three-hour assault on the camp on Wednesday in the town of Inates in the Tillaberi region, a military spokesman said. The strike, located close to the 2017 ambush that killed four U.S. service members in the town of Tongo Tongo, began with a...
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