On the Hunt for al-Qaida in East Africa with the US Military's Most Secretive Unit An excerpt from "The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives" by Adam Gamal...
An Alternative Way of Dealing with Human Shields Those of us who fought in Somalia in 1993 were the first Americans to experience firsthand the barbaric tactic of using...
Pentagon Is Keeping US Troops in Niger Even as Coup Leaders Show No Sign of Relenting The country was thrown into turmoil last month when its military rose up and deposed the first democratically elected and...
Niger Coup Forces Embassy Evacuation, But Marines Will Remain The Pentagon said there has been no change in military posture in the West African country, which was thrown into political...
Pentagon Keeps Troops in Niger Despite Putsch, Maintains Contact with Some Military Leaders The Pentagon said Tuesday it has suspended security cooperation with Niger due to the political unrest in the West African...
How New Jersey Guardsmen Thwarted One of the Largest Somali Terror Attacks in Decades It was fall 2019, and there was a near certainty that the American-run Baledogle Military Airfield in the middle of Somalia...
Lawmakers Demand Answers on US Involvement in Deadly 2017 Nigerian Airstrike A group of House Democrats wants answers following reports that the U.S. military may have helped Nigerian forces with a 2017...
An American Nun Held Hostage in West Africa Since April Has Been Rescued Suellen Tennyson, an 83-year-old nun from Louisiana, was captured by "armed gunmen" on April 4 in Yalgo, Burkina Faso...
Troops Reprimanded After Deadly Al-Shabaab Attack on Kenya Base The U.S. base and an adjacent airfield were more vulnerable due to a culture of complacency among forces deployed there, the...
US Airman Dies During Deployment to Niger Staff Sgt. Dennis F. Melton was stationed at Nigerien Air Base 101 in Niamey, Niger, with the 768th Expeditionary Air Base...
One Detainee Killed and 2 Others Critically Injured in Dallas ICE Facility, Homeland Security Says A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on...
Pentagon Adds Exemptions to Requirement for All Troops to Get the Flu Shot The Pentagon has stepped back from the policy that requires all troops to get the flu shot every year by introducing...
Travis Decker, Man Accused of Killing His Daughters, Is Dead, US Marshals Service Reportedly Says The hunt for Travis Decker, an Army veteran accused of killing his three young daughters near Leavenworth, Washington, could...
Man Arrested on Suspicion of Trying to Board Camp Pendleton Helicopter with Lit Flare A civilian holding a lit flare tried to board a Marine Corps helicopter while the aircraft was sitting on a Camp Pendleton...
Hegseth Abruptly Summons Top Military Commanders to a Meeting in Virginia Next Week The directive did not offer a reason for the gathering Tuesday of senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their...
![Nigeriens participate in a march called by supporters of coup leader Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani in Niamey](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-08/ApNewsroom_France_Niger_Coup_78103.jpg?itok=rF4zFaJy "Nigeriens participate in a march called by supporters of coup leader Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani in Niamey, Niger, Sunday, July 30, 2023. The French Foreign Ministry says Tuesday, Aug.1, 2023 France is planning an imminent evacuation of people seeking to leave Niger after the coup last week in the former French colony. Poster reads: Down with France, long live Putin." (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)")
