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Several US troops wounded in attack in Syria: Reports
The U.S. currently has hundreds of troops deployed in eastern Syria as part of a coalition fighting the Islamic State group.
Soldier receives nation’s second highest award for valor for quick thinking during jungle ambush
The Distinguished Service Cross was awarded to a former soldier who had single-handedly charged an enemy machine gun nest .
By Kyle Rempfer
Pentagon releases extended video of ambush on US-Nigerien forces
The Pentagon released an extended video Thursday of its re-creation of the Niger attack last October that took the lives of four US service members, revealing new details about the soldiers’ final minutes.
By Tara Copp, AP
Following Niger ambush, Pentagon promises more air support in Africa
After contact with the enemy, it took an hour and a half for the first American aircraft to arrive overhead the battlefield where four U.S. soldiers were killed near the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, on Oct. 4.
By Kyle Rempfer
Niger investigation: What went wrong, what’s being done to fix it
Mistakes that led to an outmanned and outgunned convoy of U.S. and Nigerien forces getting overrun last October were widespread, a 6,300-page investigation has found.
By Tara Copp, AP
Overrun and outnumbered, special ops soldiers fought to the end in deadly Niger ambush
In the months since the Oct. 4 ambush, U.S. Africa Command has conducted an extensive investigation to answer two questions: What were those service members doing there, and why didn’t they have better support?
By Tara Copp, AP
Pentagon to unveil probe into Niger ambush that killed 4
The Pentagon on Thursday will release the final report on the Niger attack that killed four Americans last October, concluding that the Army Special Forces team did not get required command approval for the initial risky mission to go after a high-level insurgent linked to the Islamic State group.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
US-backed Syrian fighters spotted in MRAPs prior to ISIS assault
Kurdish forces, called the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, flaunted a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle over social media Tuesday — an up-armored gun truck specifically designed to resist improvised explosive devices, but not previously authorized for provision to U.S.-backed forces.
By Kyle Rempfer
In Niger attack, risk-taking culture and complacency led to deadly ambush
Low-level commanders “took liberties to get operations approved through the chain of command.”
By Kyle Rempfer
Niger may have arrested militant with ties to ambush that killed 4 US soldiers
Niger’s military has detained a suspect who it believes could be the militant leader who was being pursued when an ambush left four American soldiers dead in October, the American ambassador said Tuesday.
MISFIRE: DoD shouldn’t have waited so long to approve danger pay for troops in Niger
The Defense Department on March 8 announced that troops deployed to Niger, Mali and northern Cameroon qualify to receive imminent danger pay/hostile fire pay, retroactive to June 7, 2017.
By Military Times Editors