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At least 29 soldiers are killed during an ambush by Islamic extremists in the Tahoua Region, Niger, involving suicide car bombs and bombings. Several attackers are killed in a counter-offensive.
2023-10-2

Jihadist insurgents kill at least ten Nigerien soldiers in Kandadji, Tillabéri Region, Niger. Seven soldiers are later killed and five others are injured in a vehicle accident while travelling to reinforce the army unit under attack.
2023-09-28

The ruling Nigerien military government orders the Niger Armed Forces to go on maximum alert, citing an increased threat of attack.
2023-08-26

At least 12 soldiers are killed by suspected jihadists in an ambush in Anzourou, Tillabéri, Niger.
2023-08-20

Seventeen soldiers are killed and 20 others are injured in an ambush of a military vehicle in Koutougou, Tillabéri Region, Niger.
2023-08-16

France formally ends its military intervention in Mali after withdrawing its last remaining troops from a military base in Gao. The base was handed over to Malian Armed Forces before the French forces crossed into neighbouring Niger.
2022-08-15

Jihadists kill six soldiers in Niger, resulting in the ensuing deaths of twenty-two of the attackers.
2021-12-24

Fourteen Nigerien soldiers are killed by heavily armed militant gunmen who ambushed the convoy in the Tillabéri Region of Niger.
2019-12-26

For the first time in nearly eighteen months, a sign of life appears of four French nationals kidnapped by Al-Qa'eda in Arlit, Niger. A videotape shows them healthy; they ask France to negotiate their release.
2012-09-8

France rejects a demand by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to leave Afghanistan in return for the freeing of French and African hostages kidnapped in Niger.
2010-11-19